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Bidding Information
Lot #    17353
Auction End Date    3/13/2007 12:13:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Omer calendar
Title (Hebrew)    ספירת העומר
Author    [Liturgy - Miniature - Woodcut Illustrations]
City    Offenbach
Publication Date    1813
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    92 pp., 100:58 mm., age and use staining, some minor tears. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Pocket size prayer book for the evening services and the counting of the omer. Instructions in Judeo-German. The injunction to count the 49 days from the 16th of Nisan until Shavuot is considered to be at present time of rabbinic authority only. The 49 days themselves are commonly known as the sefirah. The counting is preceded by a special benediction "... concerning the counting of the Omer."

The kabbalists used the 49 days (7 X 7) to form permutations of various sefirot denoting the ascent out of the 49 "gates" of impurity of the Egyptian bondage to the purity of the revelation at Sinai. In many prayer books these combinations are printed at the side of each day listed.

In order not to forget the count of the day it was fairly common practice to have an "Omer calendar" in the home with movable numbers on it. These "calendars" even developed into an art form and several early specimens show intricate work and lettering. .

          
Paragraph 2    עם תפלת מנחה ומעריב ומזמורים שאומרים קודם תפלת ערבית, ודיני ס"ע [ספירת עומר] בל"א [בלשון אשכנז], וגם תפלת מוצאי שבת [ועוד] ...
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0330818 (unseen)
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Liturgy:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Miniatures:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, Judeo-German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica