Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Manuscript - Siddur Tiklal, with Etz Chaim by the Maharitz and Tola'at Ya'akov by the Maharam Gabai, with a Commentary by the Mahari Wannah - Yemen, 1836 - Unknown Documentation of the Revelation of Sefer HaZohar
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Manuscript, siddur Tiklal, weekday and Shabbat prayers, incorporated with commentaries and halachot; Etz Chaim (by R. Yichye Tzalach - the Maharitz), and Tola'at Ya'akov (by R. Meir Ibn Gabai); with commentary on Tola'at Ya'akov (attributed to Mahari Wannah). At the end on the volume are laws of tzitzit, eruvin, calendar, ketubot and gittin and the book "Sha'arei Tahara on the Laws of Nidah". Yemen, [ca. 1836].
The commentaries were written around the vowelized prayer. The "commentary" on the book Tola'at Ya'akov is written in the margins. This commentary is attributed to R. Yitzchak Wannah - Mahari Wannah [leading Yemenite Kabbalist and Torah scholar in the 16th-17th centuries], author of Rechev Elokin and of the siddur Pa'amon Zahav (see the introduction by R. Yitzchak Ratzabi to Rechev Elokim, Bnei Brak, 1999, p. 64 and pp. 89-90). The commentary of the Mahari Wannah has not been printed. An illustration of Eser Sefirot appears on the margins of page 10/b.
The introduction to this manuscript (on the margins of page 9/a) includes an interesting and unfamiliar tradition regarding the revelation of the Sefer HaZohar and Sefer HaBahir: "The Ge'onim have said that Sefer HaZohar and Sefer HaBahir were not revealed until the beginning of the Sixth Thousand [mid-thirteenth century], by Eliyahu HaNavi who appeared to the holy R. Tardos [apparently, R. Todros HaLevi Abulafia, author of Otzar HaKavod] and Eliyahu informed him of the place in which these books were concealed. When they removed them from the pumice cave, several kabbalistic books were also taken out, some with only a few remaining fragments, and some with all the letters erased…".
2-48, [21], 97-228 leaves. An additional leaf was bound between leaves 227 and 228. Approximately 22 cm. Good-fair condition. Wear and stains. Worn leather binding.
The manuscript lacks one leaf at the beginning as well as leaves 49-96. These leaves were replaced by [21] later duplicates [19th/20th century] from the book Tola'at Ya'akov. The end is also lacking and the manuscript ends in the middle of Sha'arei Tahara.
The manuscript was dated according to the "calendar of days on which the request for dew and rain is added to the Amidah prayer" (page 219/b) - which begins with the year 1836 and ends at 1869. The version of Etz Chaim in this manuscript is similar to the Nusach Teiman (Yemenite version) of the Kadi manuscript (Bnei Brak, 2012). Siddurim with the Etz Chaim commentary by the Maharitz, incorporated with the kabbalistic commentary Tola'at Ya'akov are rare.
The commentaries were written around the vowelized prayer. The "commentary" on the book Tola'at Ya'akov is written in the margins. This commentary is attributed to R. Yitzchak Wannah - Mahari Wannah [leading Yemenite Kabbalist and Torah scholar in the 16th-17th centuries], author of Rechev Elokin and of the siddur Pa'amon Zahav (see the introduction by R. Yitzchak Ratzabi to Rechev Elokim, Bnei Brak, 1999, p. 64 and pp. 89-90). The commentary of the Mahari Wannah has not been printed. An illustration of Eser Sefirot appears on the margins of page 10/b.
The introduction to this manuscript (on the margins of page 9/a) includes an interesting and unfamiliar tradition regarding the revelation of the Sefer HaZohar and Sefer HaBahir: "The Ge'onim have said that Sefer HaZohar and Sefer HaBahir were not revealed until the beginning of the Sixth Thousand [mid-thirteenth century], by Eliyahu HaNavi who appeared to the holy R. Tardos [apparently, R. Todros HaLevi Abulafia, author of Otzar HaKavod] and Eliyahu informed him of the place in which these books were concealed. When they removed them from the pumice cave, several kabbalistic books were also taken out, some with only a few remaining fragments, and some with all the letters erased…".
2-48, [21], 97-228 leaves. An additional leaf was bound between leaves 227 and 228. Approximately 22 cm. Good-fair condition. Wear and stains. Worn leather binding.
The manuscript lacks one leaf at the beginning as well as leaves 49-96. These leaves were replaced by [21] later duplicates [19th/20th century] from the book Tola'at Ya'akov. The end is also lacking and the manuscript ends in the middle of Sha'arei Tahara.
The manuscript was dated according to the "calendar of days on which the request for dew and rain is added to the Amidah prayer" (page 219/b) - which begins with the year 1836 and ends at 1869. The version of Etz Chaim in this manuscript is similar to the Nusach Teiman (Yemenite version) of the Kadi manuscript (Bnei Brak, 2012). Siddurim with the Etz Chaim commentary by the Maharitz, incorporated with the kabbalistic commentary Tola'at Ya'akov are rare.
Manuscripts - Yemenite Jewry
Manuscripts - Yemenite Jewry