Tephilah mikol Hashanah [prayers for the entire year]. According to the rite of Bohemia, Poland, Moravia and Lithuania. With commentary by Joseph ben Moses Darshan: Kether Yoseph. Appended: Asher ben Jechiel (attributed to) Orchoth Chaim

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Jablonsky

Berlin

1700

FIRST EDITION. Without the appended Tehillim (Psalms). The Mehlman Copy

Vinograd, Berlin 19

Scarce Suppressed Sabbatian Siddur. This prayerbook was intended as the first part of a trilogy consisting of: Part I - Prayerbook with commentary "Kether Malchuth"; Part II - Psalms with commentary "Kether Torah"; and Part III - Ma'amadoth with commentary "Kether Kehunah." The commentary to the Prayerbook by Joseph ben Moses Darshan of Przemysl was found to be rife with references to the apostate Messiah Shabthai Tzvi of Smyrna and the edition was suppressed by the justifiably outraged rabbinic authorities. (The year 1700 saw heightened Sabbatian activity - in that year R. Judah Chasid of Shedlitz - referred to by R. Jacob Emden as "Judah Chasid Shoteh" - led his hundreds of followers to the Holy Land.) Thenceforth, copies of this Siddur became extremely scarce. In rare instances where a copy of the Siddur survives, the offending passages are likely to be stricken by hand. The present copy somehow escaped censorship intact. See B. Naor, Post-Sabbatian Sabbatianism (1999) pp. 76-79