Sacred Splendor: Judaica from the Arthur and Gitel Marx Collection
Sacred Splendor: Judaica from the Arthur and Gitel Marx Collection
SIDDUR (DAILY PRAYER BOOK) WITH LURIANIC KABBALISTIC COMMENTARY BY RABBI JACOB KOPPEL BEN MOSES OF MEZHIRICHI, SLAVUTA: DOV BER BEN ISRAEL SEGAL AND DOV BER BEN PESAH, 1804
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SIDDUR (DAILY PRAYER BOOK) WITH LURIANIC KABBALISTIC COMMENTARY BY RABBI JACOB KOPPEL BEN MOSES OF MEZHIRICHI, SLAVUTA: DOV BER BEN ISRAEL SEGAL AND DOV BER BEN PESAH, 1804
2 parts in 1 volume (8 x 6 in.; 203 x 152 mm): Part 1 (Weekdays): 162 folios; Part 2 (Sabbaths and Festivals): 176 folios.
The first edition of an important precursor to Hasidic prayer books.
Edited by Polish Lurianic kabbalist Rabbi Jacob Koppel ben Moses of Mezhirichi (d. ca. 1740), this comprehensive siddur contains daily, Sabbath, and festival prayers, as well as the Passover Haggadah, order of ritual slaughter, and more. An approbation by Rabbi Asher Zevi of Ostrog states that he heard that the saintly Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (Ba‘al Shem Tov; ca. 1700-1760), founder of Hasidism, saw the manuscript of this work and that it found favor in his eyes. The formulation of the Lurianic kavvanot (mystical intentions and meditations during prayer) presented here subsequently served as an important basis for several later Hasidic prayer books.