Sha’arai Dimah Ve’yeshuah [selected prayers for recitation at the Holy Sites in Eretz Israel]. Selected and annotated by Samuel ben Joshua Zelig of Dahlinov and Ilya

(LITURGY)

Israel Bak

Jerusalem

1849

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border

Vinograd, Jerusalem 77; Halevy 48; JNUL copy is incomplete

In the introduction, the editor, more readily known for his Halachic writings (especially Minchath Shmuel on Tractate Berachoth, Vilna, 1842), explains his circumstances, whereby recent illness resulted in his inability to focus upon more legalistic scholalry persuits, thus the present volume of liturgies. R. Samuel interestingly records the prevailing custom of Jerusalem: “When approaching the Western Wall, one must remove one's shoes before kissing the stones of the Kotel, thereafter, bow deeply and say...“