Prayers for the whole year, with the intentions of the Ari. Three parts: for everyday, Shabbat and festivals.
Siddur Rabbi Asher – written by Rabbi Asher of Brad and Mezhiboz, disciple of the Ba'al Shem Tov. Lvov, 1787. Printed by Rabbi Shlomo Yarush Rappaport.
Siddur according to Ashkenaz customs nusach Sefarad, with the intentions of the Ari, by the Mekubal Rabbi Asher son of the Chassid Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Margaliot of Mezhiboz, one of Holy Group of Rabbi Yisrael Ba'al Shem Tov, and a leading Torah scholar of the famous Brad Kloiz.
The siddur was printed in Lvov in 1787, in the printing press of Rabbi Shlomo Yarush [who printed the first edition of Noam Elimelech. As known, the employees of that printing press were lofty holy men, among the 36 concealed tzaddikim of that generation]. At the beginning of the siddur are approbations by scholarly rabbis of Brad and an approbation by Rabbi Yissachar Dov of Zlatshov and Rabbi Moshe Peshao,Pishchia Vrśac etc.
The development of its printing began seven years previously, with the printing of a siddur with the intentions of the Ari, in Zolkva in 1781, with the encouragement of the mekubalim of the Brad kloiz, which became known as Siddur Chochmei HaKloiz. This siddur was the first with kabalistic intentions which was printing in that region due to the spreading of kabbalah in the area by Brad scholars and the disciples of the Ba'al Shem Tov. From the day this siddur was published, Rabbi Asher toiled in the study of its sources: The Ari's writings, Sefer HaYichudim, Pri Etz Chaim, manuscript of the siddur of the Chassid the Mekubal Rabbi Shabtai of Rashkov, etc. He labored to correct all mistakes and adjust it to perfection. In his introduction, Rabbi Asher writes on the Siddur Chachmei HaKloiz that "The first time can never be perfect". He explains that he permitted himself to correct it since he studied form the G-dly Mekubal Rabbi Chaim Sanzer of Brad, and especially the study of "This true awesome wisdom", and also his rabbi Rabbi Chaim proofread this siddur, "Therefore, I had the ability to proofread and correct it".
This siddur is called Rabbi Asher after him and is a faithful source of the kabalistic school of thought of the Ba'al Shem Tov's disciples and of that generation's mekubalim.
2 volumes, [398] leaves. 17 cm. Good to fair condition, use stains and tears. Leaf 2 (approbations) has large damage to text. Few moth damages to text. Most leaves are in good condition. Color leaf cutting. Fabric bindings, non-original.
Stephansky Chassidut, no. 414.