Siddur Ha’Ari [prayers with Lurianic Kabbalistic meditations]. Part II (commences with weekday Minchah).

(LITURGY).

(Morocco)

17th-18th century

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a square and semi-cursive Sephardic hand on paper. With notations by R. Abraham Azulai and R. Joseph Luria. Kabbalistic diagram on f. 38b. Signed on first page by Yoseph Shemama.

Possibly entirely written by the Moroccan Kabbalist R. Avraham Azulai of Marrakesh (see accompanying letter by Moshe Amar). According to Chid’a in Shem Hagedolim (no. 16) R. Abraham Azulai was “a holy mekubal and wonder-worker whose words were heard in heaven.” He states that R. Chaim ibn Atar (the Ohr Hachaim) knew R. Azulai and possessed some of his amulets. One of R. Azulai’s colleagues was R. Shlomo Amar and his disciple was R. Ya’akov Pinto. His commentaries to the Zohar were published in Sepher Mikdash Melech. See Yoseph ibn Naim, Malchei Rabanan, p. 11.