First Edition: Shnei Luchot HaBrit. Amsterdam, 1648-1649. Including the Famous 'Tefillat HaShla"h'

First Edition: Shnei Luchot HaBrit. Amsterdam, 1648-1649. Including the Famous 'Tefillat HaShla"h'

Sefer Shnei Luchot HaBrit by the gadol v'kadosh hadorot, the G-dly Kabbalist Rabbeinu Yeshayah HaLevi Horowitz, also known as 'HaShla"h HaKadosh' after the name of this sefer. Amsterdam, Immanuel Benveniste press, 1648-1649. First edition. First edition of 'Tefillat HaShla"h' for one's descendants!!! Lacking individual leaves (see below).

First edition of the sefer renowned across the entire Diaspora throughout the generations, and by which name Rabbi Yeshayah HaLevi Horowitz is known, as the Ba'al HaShla"h HaKadosh. This is the first edition, printed with much effort by the author's son, Rabbi Sheftel, rabbi of Poznań.

This first edition was printed in the midst of the Chmielnicki massacres that took place in Eastern Europe, when parents were slaughtered alongside their children, via strange and unusual deaths, in sanctification of Hashem's name. Page 258a bears a prayer to be recited upon dying al kiddush Hashem.

This sefer is one of the fundamental works of mussar and Kabbalah, including insights in the revealed and hidden, and proper conduct. Among the most sacred and admired sefarim in all circles and communities among the Jewish people. With Vavei HaAmudim by the author's son, Rabbi Sheftel. Out of respect for his father, he referred to his own work as an introduction.

The sefer features several additional prayers composed by the Shla"h HaKadosh: a prayer for livelihood beginning with the words "You are the L-rd, who nurtures oryx horns through louse eggs ..." and the renowned 'Tefillat HaShla"h' for children's upbringing, about which the Shla"h writes that Rosh Chodesh Sivan is an auspicious time to recite it - and indeed, throughout the generations and until this day, there are mass gatherings in which this prayer is recited at the Shla"h's grave in Tiberias. It is difficult to exaggerate the magnitude of the segulah concealed within reciting the famous and important prayers for livelihood and for children's upbringing from a copy of an actual first edition of Sefer HaShla"h HaKadosh.

" ... I have come to request and plead before You that my children and my children's children forever be befitting offspring, and that no blemish or imperfection be found among them; only peace and truth and goodness, what is proper in the eyes of G-d and man. May they master Torah ... Grant them health and honor and strength, stature, beauty, charm and lovingkindness, and may there be love and brotherhood amongst them ... Grant them appropriate spouses from the seed of Torah scholars ..."

Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for further discussion of the sefer.

Stefansky, Sifrei Yessod 359.

Owners' signatures (some rubbed out). Antique handwritten text revisions.

Lacking the title page and the first leaf of Shnei Luchot HaBrit. Vavei HaAmudim lacks the title page and leaves 4-5.

This copy contains: 421 [1]: 2-3, 44 leaf, 28.5 cm.

Overall moderate-fine condition. Aging stains. Several leaves are bound out of order.