Siddur me-he-Arizal ha-Nikra be-Shem Kol Ya'akov [Prayer book of Rabbi Isaac Luria called Voice of Jacob]. Slavuta: Dov-Ber ben Israel and Dov-Ber ben Pesah, 1804.

350 leaves (8 x 6 ¼ in.; 203 x 159 mm). foliation: [6],156, 188. Woodcut vignette on title, tail-piece on final leaf; a few quires on pale blue-green tinted paper; kabbalistic diagrams. Title page soiled and stained with small mends affecting a few words, title page with owners' stamps; mostly marginal soiling and dampstaining; final leaf mended at gutter margin touching s few letters. Cream cloth, title and imprint stamped on spine; soiled, top edge of lower cover torn. Marbled edges

Vinograd, Slavuta 53; Mehlman, 220; Liberman, Ohel Rochel vol. l, p. 137; Scholem, 4756.

An important Hassidic Siddur based on the traditions of Rabbi Isaac Luria Ashkenazi, more familiarly known by the acronym ARI. Edited by Polish kabbalist, Rabbi Jacob Koppel ben Moses Lipschitz of Mezeritch (d. ca. 1740), this comprehensive prayer book contains daily, Sabbath and holiday prayers as well as the Passover haggadah, order of ritual slaughter, and more. The formulation of the Lurianic kavvanot (the mystical intentions and meditations during prayer) served as a basis for later hasidic prayer books. An approbation by Rabbi Asher Tzvi of Ostrog states that the saintly Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism, saw the manuscript of this work and that it "found favor in his eyes."