Siddur Rav Sa’adiah Gaon is one of the earliest and most important sefarim of prayer and halachah. It was composed by the rosh yeshivah of Sura, Rabi Sa’adiah Gaon, who was a descendant of Rabi Chanina ben Dosa. Second edition. Jerusalem, 1963.
This was the personal copy owned by the gadol hador ” amud tzluthon d’Yisrael ” the gaon Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky. His (early) signature appears on the front flyleaf: “From the library of Chaim Kanievsky.” This sacred copy, with rare prayers and important halachahs, accompanied the gaon Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky for decades!
The gaon Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky cites Siddur Rav Sa’adiah Gaon many times as the Ramba”m’s source [we counted about nine times] in his renowned work, Kiryat Melech on the Ramba”m, in the halachahs on prayer and on blessings. The copy of Kiryat Melech to which we have access (third edition, Bnei Brak, 1983, brought in Otzar HaChochmah ), contains about 1000 revisions, as stated on the title page. Each place the gaon Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky cites Siddur Rav Sa’adiah Gaon , he states the precise page number according to this personal copy of his. It is especially exciting to see that in some of the places Rabbi Chaim refers to, there is even some sort of mark in the body of the siddur, or signs of deep study.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the gaon Rabbi Shmaryahu Yosef Chaim Kanievsky .
58, 438 pp, 26 cm.
Fine-very fine condition. Sacred usage marks. Light wear in the spine as a result of extensive study.