Siddur HaTephiloth LeMinhag Kehiloth HaKara’im [prayers for the entire year]. According to Karaite rite.

Estimate

$2,000–$2,500

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

(KARAITICA)

printer

Yarka & Yerushalmi

Place

Kale (Crimea)

Publication

1737

Description

Part I. Also with poems by Yehuda Gibor. A wide margined copy. Scattered marginalia.

references

Vinograd, Kale 4; Mehlman 1839.

summary

Karaism had its beginings in the 8th century, breaking with Rabbinic tradition by rejecting the Talmud and declaring Biblical law as the sole basis of Judaism. Karite liturgy has little similarity with its Rabbinic counterpart. Codified are only two daily prayer services, the morning and the evening. Liturgy relating to the Temple sacrifices formed the primary basis of the Karaite rite consisting of passages from the Bible, with an emphasis on Psalms, along with liturgical poetry unknown to Rabbinic rites. The Shema prayer is included in the Karaite rite, but the Shemonah-Esrah is unknown. See EJ, X cols. 780-1.

ff. 110, 59. Signatures of previous owners, stained in places, few leaves loose, marginal cut on one leaf not affecting text. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, gutter split. 4to.

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