Auction 49 Part I - Books, Chassidism, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Manuscript – Siddur HaRashash – Shacharit for Weekdays – Aleppo, 19th Century
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Manuscript, Kavanot HaRashash Siddur, for the weekday morning prayer (Shacharit). Extensive and detailed version of kavanot, including combination of Names. [Aleppo? 19th century], Rashi script and square script. The manuscript contains kavanot before prayer, circling the bimah, donning tallit and tefillin, Korbanot, Pesukei D'Zimra, blessing on Kriyat Shema [without the Amida prayer], Nefillat Apayim, Ashrei U'Va L'Zion, Ein K'Elokeinu, Aleinu L'Shabeach. In places without kavanot of the Rashash, the scribe did not copy the prayer and he skipped to the next passage leaving an empty space (apparently he planned to add it at a later time). Glosses and sources by several writers. Bound at the end of the manuscript is a leaf by another writer with a passage of the kavanah of the evening prayer (Arvit). Inscription on first leaf: "I have written this to serve my Creator, Chai [?] Moshe Sasson". Signatures of the "Last Redeemer Yom Tov Yitzchak Yedid HaLevi" [an Aleppo sage who lived in Jerusalem, died 1930]. The Rashash siddur was many years in manuscript form and circulated among sages who were proficient in Kabbalistic matters. Only in 1916, did leading Kabbalists in Jerusalem and abroad decide to print it in holiness and purity (it was printed by G-d-fearing men who sanctified themselves with immersions and fasting while printing the siddur). This is a copy from the days before it was printed. [119] written pages. 16 cm. Good condition. Stains, restored tears to several leaves. Contemporary binding with leather spine.
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