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Bidding Information
Lot #    12504
Auction End Date    12/20/2005 11:18:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Seder Hamisha Zomot
Title (Hebrew)    סדר חמשה צומות
Author    [Ms. - Liturgy]
City    [Yemen]
Publication Date    19th cent.
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [32] pp., 164:114 mm., age staining, ink on heavy paper, neat Yemenite block letters with pronunciation symbols. Bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Liturgies for the five Fastdays. This work reflects the history the Yemenite Jewish communities which followed their traditional ways of secular and religious life, not being influenced by external trends and currents. Some customs in the Yemenite prayer rites go back to the prayer book of R. Saadiah Ga'on. From the 16th century on the Kabbalah and especially later its Lurianic school and system found its way to Yemen and influenced Jewish literary production in the areas of commentaries to the Bible, prayers, and liturgic poetry.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Yemen
  
Subject
Liturgy:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Other:    Liturgy
  
Kind of Judaica