Zemirot shel Shabbat with the Mateh Yehudah [!] commentary on Hebrew writing and the Yiddish Language. [Lemberg] 1804.
Songs for Shabbat and Saturday evening with a commentary in Yiddish in block letters. Title page illustrated with columns, a rainbow, fish, etc. Uncommon book. There is not a complete copy in the National Library.
30 leaves, 19.5 cm. Owner’s notations and many signatures on the flyleaf.
Bound with: Shir HaShirim with Yiddish translation. [Lemberg]. 20 leaves. Apparently printed without a title page. The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book lists a similar book appended to one of the copies of Zemirot shel Shabbat printed in Lemberg in 1776, listing no. 000307863.
Bound with: Bechinat Olam with Bakashat HaMMY”N , Josefov 1844. Hebrew and Yiddish in vowelized letters. It’s possible that a leaf before the title page is lacking, refer to The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book listing no. 000138578. [1] 73 leaves.
Fine condition. Original semi-leather binding. Aging stains.
Birkat HaChamah is recited once every 28 years. Compositions and compilations printed for the occasion were generally not saved, since the next time they would be used would be in another 28 years. This is an especially rare compilation.
Order of the recital of this special blessing printed for the Birkat HaChamah in Nissan, 1841. Includes the laws of reciting the blessing, discussions regarding the blessing, order of the blessing and prayers and hymns. Additional hymn for circumcision at the conclusion. The order of the blessing follows that of Rabbi Yaakov Meldula and was printed by Rabbi David Meldula, rabbi of the Shaar HaShamayim congregation in London, with an interesting foreword by him.
[8] leaves. 12 cm. Very fine condition. New half-leather binding.
Prayer book for weekdays, Shabbat, festivals and the High Holidays. With Torah readings for Mondays and Thursdays, and Pirkei Avot, Shir HaYichud, mizmorim, liturgical poems and Yotzrot. The siddur also contains kabbalistic prayers. Some of the instructions are in Yiddish. Original leather binding with Silver buckles.
There are known copies to which additional sections were added, apparently at a later time. Before us is the siddur as it was listed by the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, listing 000202830, with the colophon. Owner’s inscription on the flyleaf.
264 leaves, 10.5 cm. Fine-very fine condition. Aging stains.
Prayer book for the entire year, weekdays, Shabbat, and holidays. Yiddish instructions.
No liturgical poems were printed in the prayer book, other than in the “kedushah” of the Shabbat mussaf prayer, which has short liturgical poems for Shabbat Bereishit, Shabbat Rosh Chodesh, Shabbat Chanukah, Shabbat Teshuvah, Shabbat Chol HaMoed Sukkot and a Shabbat on which a circumcision is conducted.
Especially rare prayer book. Not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book and not in the National Library. To the best of our knowledge it is not in any large public library worldwide. Listed by Vinograd-Rosenfeld according to this very copy.
[2] 100 leaves, approximately 18 cm. Very fine condition. New, half-leather binding.
Miniature prayer book with prayers and with the order of counting the Omer in large letters and with the laws in German, with the order of ברכת הלבנה [the blessing of the moon], Kriyat Shema before going to sleep, and various hymns. Including woodcut engravings. On leaf 22, before the order of Sefirat HaOmer, there is an engraving of “החל חרמש בקמה תחל לספור” [“from when the scythe is first put to the standing crop you will begin counting”]. On leaf 33 there is an engraving of the splitting of the Red Sea. On leaf 28, on both sides, there are two engravings of Lag BaOmer. After Sefirat HaOmer, there is an engraving of יום הביכורים [the day of the first fruits].
72 leaves, 8.5 cm. Fine condition. Usage marks. Minimal slight tears without lack. Original semi-leather binding, rubbed.
Book of Psalms with German translation and elucidation by Yoel Brill, with commentaries by Rashi, Rabbeinu Ovadyah Seforno and the Tochachat Chaim commentary compiled from Rabbi Yosef Albo’s Sefer HaIkrim .
The translation is in [Hebrew] block letters and the elucidation is in Rashi script. Each volume has two title pages. At the start of the set there are a few prefaces regarding the poem and the Psalms, with [3] picture plates featuring 30 copperplate engravings of the musical instruments used in the Holy Temple.
Two volumes. [2], 28 [3] picture plates]; 104; 79; 52; 40; [10], 88 leaves, about 20 cm. Very fine condition. Aging stains.
Tikkun Sofrim with Vavei HaAmudim. Chamishah Chumshei Torah with the five scrolls, with an English translation by Leon Sussman and David Levy. London, [1887]. Six volumes. Rare set.
At the beginning of each volume, there are two title pages. The first one has a copperplate etching, with the signature of artist Solomon Folk. This is followed by an English title page. At the end of each volume, the Haftarot are printed with an English title page. The Chumash was printed as in another edition printed that year without the translation. Before us is the important edition with the English translation that was printed on facing pages, and with English comments that were printed across the page under the translation.
Complete set including a section containing the five scrolls with an illustrated title page, and also a partial title page added for each of the scrolls.
Rare Chumashim, especially the volume of the five scrolls. There is no complete copy in the National Library. Vinograd, London 116.
[A] Bereshit. [176, 28]. [B] Shemot. [149, 36]. [C] Vayikra. [103, 36]. [D] Bamidbar. [143, 22]. [E] Devarim. [127, 32] leaves. [F]: [The Five Scrolls]. [89] leaves. Volumes 1-4. 18 cm. Very fine condition. Volumes 5-6. 20 cm. Very fine condition except for the binding.
The order of release from vows [ התרת נדרים] and release from curses [ התרת קללות] , various notifications, and the tashlich service … per the custom of the Chassidim of Jerusalem, published … the honorable Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Ayash in his book Derech Chaim . Brought to print by Rabbi Yaakov son of Samender of Bukharia. [Russia, and possibly Shklov], 1820.
Designated for Bukharian communities, and sent to print in Russia, apparently in Shklov. 25 leaves, 17 cm.
Printed and bound with:
The selichot service per the … Sephardic … custom … special prayers for one who fasts in Elul and until Yom Kippur. Brought to print by Rabbi Yaakov son of Samender of Bukharia [Russia and possibly Shklov], 1820.
Designated for Bukharian communities, and sent to print in Russia, apparently in Shklov. 28 leaves, 18 cm.
Regarding the printing of these books, refer to A Yaari, Kiryat Sefer , 18, 1941-1942, p. 381, 388, no. 1.
Fine condition. Aging stains. The two books are bound together in the original, characteristic binding.
