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LOT 32:
Discovery! The ONly One in the World! Siddur HaAri, Bibliographically Unknown! Seder Tefillah Mikol Hashanah - ...
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Sold for: $9,500 (₪30,685)
Price including buyer’s premium and sales tax:
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12,302.50 (₪39,737.07)
Calculated by rate set by auction house at the auction day
Start price:
$
200
Buyer's Premium: 25%
VAT: 18%
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Item Overview
Description:
Siddur Chabad "Seder Tefillah Mikol Hashanah, based on the Ari's version... printed in Josefow at the press that was previously in Slavita". Appraently printed in 1843. Supervised by Rabbi Chanina Lipa Shapiro, the son of Rabbi Shmuel Abba of Slavita, before he estab;ished his famed printery in Zhitmoir.
Discovery! Chabadic Siddur, the version of the Admor Hazaken, which is bibliographacally unknown. We do not know of another copy including in the Rebbe's library in Lubavitch.
This copy is similar to the Siddur HaAri that was printed in by Rabbi Shmuel Abba Shapiro in 1836, one of the final years of activity of the Slavita printery. There are, however, several differences. For example, some footnotes include additions or variations, some of them, for fear of the censor. Thus, in Masechet Avot: "ואל תתאוה לשלחנם של עשירים..." instead of the word "מלכים" which appears in other versions; before "Veyiten Leach" of Motza'ei Shabbat: "הברכות הנזכרות פה יעבדוך והלוית הוא לסימן... אף שאין נוהגים לנו עתה..."; in the Hallel, a Halacha was added: "והיחיד אינו מברך לא בתחלה ולא בסוף כך שמעתי מפיו הקדוש" and more.
Among others, this Siddur contains the "סדר לוח ברכת הנהנין" of the Admor Hazaken, which almost completely matches the copy of the Rebbe's library in Lubavitch, including the pagination (only the first sheet and last leaf differ). The copy of the library has a title page (thus the difference in the first and last leaves - since in addition to the Seder that was printed in the Siddur, לוח ברכת הנהנין was printed separately with the same tables and only the title page was added to the separate printing). The title page states that the book was printed in Josefow in 1843 at the printery that was previously in Slavita. Rabbi Yehoshua Mondshine (Bibliographia Sifrei Hahalacha shel Admor Hazaken p. 222) writes that this table is apparently a printout from the Siddur - and this is a Siddur, the Ari Version, with the same table!
Partial copy, including the prayers for Sabbath, Masechet Avot, Kiddush Levanah, Seder Luch Birkat Hanehenin, Seder Birkat Hamazon, Keri'at Shema al Hamitah, Tikkun Chatzot, Hallel, Mussaf for Rosh Chodesh, prayers for Shalosh Regalim, prayers for Rosh Hashanah including the Teki'ot and the prayers for Yom Kippur up to Seder HaAvodah; the rest is missing, Originaly, apparently 172 leaves. In this copy, the following are missing: title page, 2-40, 62-63, 128 to the end.
Printed on quality bluish paper. Old half-leather binding. Approx. 18.5 cm. Several detached leaves. Moth perforations. Taping amd tears to several leaves, affecting the text. Stains and marks of usage. Fair overall condition.
We are much obliged to the scholar and bibliographer Reb Chizkiya Sofer, who assisted us in identifying and studying this important item.
