Sha’arei Dimah VeYeshuah [prayers for recitation at the Holy Sites in Eretz Israel]. Selected and annotated by Shmuel ben Yehoshua Zelig of Dahlinov and Ilya.

(LITURGY).

Israel Bak

Jerusalem

1849

Vinograd, Jerusalem 77.

Interestingly, the author records the prevailing custom of Jerusalem: “When approaching the Western Wall, one must remove one's shoes before kissing the stones of the Kothel, thereafter, bow deeply and say…” 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 scholarly pursuits, thus the appearance of the present volume of prayers.