Auction 35 · Lot 174

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

Estimate: $5,000–$7,000
Hammer price: $19,000

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author

(LITURGY).

printer

Aaron de Salomon Antones

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1717

Description

FIRST EDITION. Attractive additional engraved title with vignettes of three Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the festivals of the year. Two divisional title pages

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1114

summary

FIRST EDITION OF THE SHELA”H SIDDUR. 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 this edition of the SHeLa”H Prayer-Book will most assuredly be fulfilled

ff.(2), 335, 139, 130, (1), 52. Lacking 4 leaves of Tzava’ah [Last Will and Testament] of R. Sheftel son of R. Isaiah Hurwitz. Title discolored. Stains. Recent cloth. Thick 4to

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