Manuscript, Bakashot and Selichot, Hatarat Nedarim and Tashlich. [India / Iraq / Iran? The 19th century].
At the end of Selichot (Leaf 42/b) is an interesting description of the ceremony of Hatarat Nedarim on Erev Yom Kippur, titled "The custom of the Sephardic community, in the synagogue in the city of …" (We have not been able to identify the city): "On Erev Yom Kippur after Shacharit, the congregation gathers in the synagogue and from among the gathering three dayanim are chosen. One person stands before the dayanim and confesses and regrets his sins and says: I hereby admit and confess before you, expert dayanim, any vow… and then one of the holy dayanim distances himself four cubits and removes his shoes and sits on the ground like a mourner and like a banned person for a short while. Afterward, the dayanim call him with these words: You are our brother, you are our brother, you are our brother, since you have accepted the judgement. And he immediately rises from the ground and stands before the dayanim in prayer and prays with unabated tears…" This custom is mentioned in the book Shnei Luchot HaBrit (227, 1), as the custom in Eretz Israel.
The first and last leaves have family inscriptions of deaths and births from 1836-1886.
[2], 42, [9] leaves. 15 cm. Most of the notebook has bluish paper. Good-fair condition, wear and spotting, detached leaves. Ornamented binding, damaged and worn.