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Knesset Mordechai and Divrei Mordechai / Re'eh Chaim with Tefillat Chanah / Tefillah LeMoshe – Jerusalem, 1889-1903
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Volume with several books printed in Jerusalem in the 1880s-1900s:
• Knesset Mordechai, selected laws arranged according to the order of the Talmud, with Divrei Mordechai, responsa, by R. Mordechai Luria. Jerusalem, 1890. Second edition.
Sh. Halevy, No. 712.
Stamp on title page of Knesset Mordechai: "Shimon son of R. Akiva Yosef Schlesinger, author of Lev HaIvri, in Jerusalem".
• Re'eh Chaim with Tefillat Chanah, Part II of Techunat HaAretz, encouragement for settlement of Eretz Israel and mitzvot for women, with Yiddish translation, by R. Yehudah Leib Zeitlin. Jerusalem, 1889.
Sh. Halevy, No. 679.
• Tefillah LeMoshe, prayer authored by R. Moshe Sofer in Pressburg during the 1832 cholera epidemic, with additions. Jerusalem, [1903].
Between Re'eh Chaim and Tefillah LeMoshe is bound Birchot Menachem, various prayers in Yiddish by R. Gershon Shapiro. [Lviv, ca. 1860s]. Lacking beginning.
Knesset Mordechai: 80 leaves. Divrei Mordechai: 22 leaves. Re'eh Chaim: [4], 46 leaves. Does not contain [4] leaves of approbations and pre-subscribers from England and Jerusalem. Three of these leaves are also lacking in the copy recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. Birchot Menachem: 38 leaves. Tefillah LeMoshe: 10 leaves. Approx. 18 cm. Dry, brittle paper of some leaves in first book. Good to good-fair condition. Stains. Marginal tears to several leaves. New binding with early leather spine. Damage to spine.