Seder Hatephilah al Derech Hasod [prayers through the year]

(LITURGY)

n.p.

Zolkiew

1781

According to the mystical elements of Chaim Vital and the meditations of Isaac Luria.

Vinograd, Zolkiew 415 (erroneously noting only one errata leaf)

The first Complete Aschkenazi AR”I z”l Prayer-Book. The rise of the Kabbalah of Isaac Luria led many Kabbalistic circles to compile prayer-books containing specialised Lurianic meditations and esoteric rites. These texts circulated in manuscript among differening regional circles of Kabbalists. The first printed Lurianic prayer-book was the Sha’arei Rachamim (Salonika, 1741) which accorded to Sephardic rite. The present Zolkiew edition is the first printed Lurianic prayer-book which accords to Aschkenazic rite. The editor states in his introduction he utilized numerous manuscripts to compile the most correct text, and moreover, “whomever prays from this prayer-book with all sincerity, his prayers will not be returned unfulfilled.”