Boker Yizrach…Seder LeBirkath Chamah…The Prayers and Blessings to be Said on Wednesday Morning Next…On the Celebration of the 200th Cicle [sic] of the Revolution of the Sun from the Creation of the World.

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

L. Alexander, April 2nd

London

(1813)

Printed advertisement handbill announcing the sale of a prayer pamphlet “required to be said by all classes of the Jewish Community.”

AN EXTREMELY RARE ITEM OF EPHEMERA. UNRECORDED. An advertisement for the sale of a Birkath HaChamah pamphlet issued by Chief Rabbi Raphael Meldola of London. The ten page pamphlet itself is also highly rare scarce (just one copy recorded in a private collection.) The exotic Birkath HaChamah ceremony is conducted just once every 28 years. It takes place on a Wednesday during the Hebrew month of Nissan, as the sun was set into motion in the firmament on the fourth day after creation of the world (Genesis 1: 16-19.) According to the Talmud (Berachoth 59b) at this time, the sun returns to its original position when the world was first created.