Sha’ar Hashamayim [prayers throughout the year]. Compiled with commentary by R. Isaiah Halevi Hurwitz (SHeLa”H Hakodosh)

Estimate: $4,000–$6,000
Hammer price: $4,400

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author

(LITURGY).

printer

Aaron de Salomon Antones

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1717

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1114

summary

FIRST EDITION OF THE CELEBRATED SHELA”H SIDDUR The great halachist Rabbi Joel Sirkes (Ba”CH) attests in his lead approbation: “I have no doubt that whomsoever prays from this Siddur, his prayers will not go unanswered.” Indeed the great mystics would pray using the Siddur Shela”h, one such example was the founder of Chabad Chassidism, R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi. See Ch. M. Heilman, Beith Rabbi I (Berdichev, 1900), f.1v

ff. (2, titles in facsimile), 335, 139.This copy contains Prayers, Hagadah, Pirkei Avoth, Hoshanoth, Torah readings, Selichoth andYotzroth. Lacking the additional sections of Psalms, Ma’amadoth and Tzava’ah. Some mispagination as in all copies, browned and stained, some leaves torn and crudely repaired affecting text in places, slight worming, well thumbed. Modern boards, gutter split. Thick 4to

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