Auction 27 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters

Rashash Prayer Book for Yom Kippur – Copy of Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri

Opening: $500
Sold for: $2,000
Including buyer's premium
Prayer book by the Rashash [Rabbi Shalom Sharabi], with Kabbalistic intentions, section 8 for Yom Kippur. [Jerusalem, 1912]. On spine of binding produced by Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri, notation in his holy handwriting: “Rashash Prayer Book Kippur” and beneath leather spine signature of his name: “Hichini” [acronym of young Yitzchak Kaduri Nero Ya’ir].
Prayer book bound with additions of other sections of prayer book. Preceding section 8, leaves 1-62 of section 4 of prayer book for Shacharit of Shabbat (which was originally printed on 115 leaves), followed by section 8 from Yom Kippur which appears in its entire 69 leaves. At end of volume added leaves (containing intention of 13 attributes of mercy) 112-122, 125-127 of section 2. At beginning of volume, pages 225-232 containing summary of intentions for Yom Kippur from Sefer “Ohr HaChaim” (Ohr HaLevana, Jerusalem 1925).
On back binding, pasted note containing prayer [for Yom Kippur] for ill and childless, in handwriting of Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri.
225-232 pages; 1-62 leaves; [blank leaf], 69 leaves; 112-118, 125-127, 119-122. [Blank leaves]. 22.5 cm. Quality paper, good condition. Handwritten additions. Semi-leather binding.
Attached is a signed authorization attesting to the fact that the prayer book was bound by Rabbi Kaduri and that he prayed from it for approx.55 years.
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