Rabbi Meir Baal HaNess

(LITURGY)

n.p.

1824

Single leaf on vellum, Hebrew text. Decorative border hand-painted in green and red

This lengthy formula attributed to the famed “Chatham Sofer,’” R. Moses Schreiber of Pressburg, to be recited in a time of anxiety and distress, includes the essential ingredient “Elo-hei deMeir Aneni” (God of Meir, answer me). The scribe has adhered to the lettering and ruling employed in Torah scrolls