Auction 22 · Lot 118

Sha’ar Hashamayim [prayers throughout the year]. With Psalms, Biblical readings and Ma’amadoth. Compiled with commentary by Isaiah Hurwitz (the SHeLa”H Hakodosh)

Estimate: $10,000–$15,000
Hammer price: $15,000

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author

(LITURGY).

printer

Aaron de Salomon Antones

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1717

Description

FIRST EDITION. Attractive additional engraved title, two divisional title pages. Five printed pages tipped in at end: Prayers for the Eve of Rosh Chodesh

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1114

summary

THE SHELA”H SIDDUR. A handsome copy of this celebrated prayer-book with a Kabbalistic commentary by the Holy SHeLa”H. Prepared for publication by the SHeLa”H’s great-grandson, Abraham, it includes his comments as well as those of his grandfather, Shabbetai Sheftel. Rabbi Joel Sirkes (The Ba”CH), one of Poland’s most outstanding Talmudists, famously attests in his lead approbation (f.2v) the certainty that all prayers invoked from the SHeLa”H Prayer-Book will most assuredly be fulfilled

ff.(2),335, 139, 130, (1), 52. Inscription on title, minimally stained in places, lightly worn through use, few taped repairs. Contemporary sheep-backed speckled board, rubbed, remnanats of clasps and hinges. Thick 4to

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