Auction 94 Part 2 Rare and Important Items
Manuscript, Siddur Kavanot HaRashash – 19th Century – Glosses – Copy of the Kabbalist Rabbi Avraham Salem
Manuscript, Siddur Kavanot HaRashash – prayers for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. [Jerusalem?, ca. 19th century].
Semi-cursive and square Oriental script. Presumably scribed by one of the Torah scholars of the Beit El yeshiva for kabbalists in Jerusalem, who produced various copyings of Siddur HaRashash, and entrusted them with reliable kabbalists only.
Marginal glosses and additions in various hands, from kabbalists who used the siddur. Various additions to the first and final leaves, including kavanot for the Rosh Hashanah Amidah prayer, from the siddur of R. Chizkiyahu Yitzchak Mizrachi Sharabi.
This siddur was used by the kabbalist R. Avraham Salem (d. 1938), a Torah scholar of Aleppo and Jerusalem, as attested in the inscription on the back endpaper.
[122] leaves (including several blank leaves). 20 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains and wear. Tears, open tears and defects to several leaves, affecting text. Original binding, damaged.