Seder Tephiloth Kol ha-Shanah [Prayer Book for the Entire Year]

(LITURGY)

Yemen

1848

Replete with naïve colored artwork. Title within elaborate decorative border including tree, flower and bird motifs. Yemenite square rabbinic writing. Some prayers include nikud (vowel points). Scribe: Sliman Fasil

This collection of prayers for the entire year includes some distinctively Yemenite compositions, such as an elegy for Tishah be-Av composed by MaHaRI”TZ [Mori Yichya Tsalach] (1715-1805), author of the important halachic work Etz Chaim. An anomaly of this Siddur is the correspondence of the sixth “hakafah” (circumambulation) to Pinchas. On Simchath Torah it is customary to circle the synagogue seven times. Each circling corresponds to a sephirah of the Kabbalah and to a biblical personality. Generally, the sixth circle is connected to Joseph (Yesod or “Foundation”). However in our prayer book, this sixth hakafah is surprisingly assigned to Pinchas