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Lot #		19554
Auction End Date		1/8/2008 10:54:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)

Title Information

Title (English)

Siddur Bet Rahel

Title (Hebrew)

סדר בית רחל ושער הלל

Author

[Liturgy - Kabbalah] R. Naphtali b. Isaac ha-Kohen

City

Amsterdam

Publisher

Johanan Levi Rofeh & son Benjamin

Publication Date

1816

Collection Information

Independent Item

This listing is an independent item not part of any collection

Description Information

Physical
Description

16; [1], 256, 120; 90, [2] ff.. 187:112 mm., nice margins, light age and damp staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary paper wrappers, spine taped.

Detailed
Description

Siddur Bet Rahel Title (Hebrew) Author City Leipzig - Hamburg Publisher Nies'schen Buchdr. - M. W. Kaufmann Publication Date 1861 Collection Information Independent Item This listing is an independent item not part of any collection Description Information Physical Description Year round prayer book following the custom and rites of Ashkenaz. Included are Pirke Avot with commentary, Haggadah, Pirke Shira, Psalms, and finally Bet Rahel by R. Naphtali b. Isaac ha-Kohen (Katz) (1645–1719), rabbi and kabbalist. R. Naphtali was born in Stepan (Volhynia), where his father was rabbi. In his youth he was taken captive by the Tatars but managed to escape. He succeeded his father as av bet din of Stepan and then served as rabbi of Ostrow (1680–89), Posen (1690–1704), and Frankfort on the Main (1704–11). In the latter year a fire broke out in his house, destroying the whole Jewish quarter of Frankfort. After he had been maliciously charged with preventing the extinguishing of the fire because he wanted to test his amulets - in the use of which he was expert - he was imprisoned and compelled to resign his post. He went to Prague, staying in the house of David Oppenheim, where he met Nehemiah Hayon and even gave approbation to his book Oz le-Elohim (also called Meheimnuta de-Kalla; Berlin, 1713). From 1713 to 1715 he lived in Breslau, where together with R. Zevi Hirsch Ashkenazi he excommunicated Hayon after realizing his true character. In 1715, after King Augustus of Poland had rejected his application to be restored to his post as rabbi of Posen, he returned to Ostrow where his son Bezalel was rabbi. While journeying to Erez Israel he was taken ill in Constantinople and passed on there. Among his works are Pi Yesharim (Frankfort, 1702), kabbalistic comments to the word bereshit ("in the beginning"); and Sha'ar Naftali, poems and piyyutim (Bruenn, 1757). Several works are still in manuscript. R. Naphtali was one of the important halakhic authorities of his generation and one of the greatest kabbalists of Poland. His image persisted in the memory of the people, and many legends and wondrous tales about him circulated for many generations. He conducted his rabbinate high-handedly and as a result met much opposition from the leaders of the communities, which was apparently the cause of his frequent wanderings. Despite this he had a sensitive soul which found expression in his poems, piyyutim, and prayers which have been published in various places. His well-known ethical will (Berlin 1729) contains profound thoughts and moral instruction and some see in it one of the first sparks of practical Hasidism.

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עם תפלות ובקשות ותחינות... ודינים... והצגנו בו פי' נאה ונקל על כל התפלה כמו שנדפס מקדם בק"ק זאלקווי... והוספנו בו על הפי'... פרקי אבות ותהלים... [גם] תקון חצות ותקוני תפלות מספר שערי ציון ותפלות ע"ד קבלה מר"י [ר' יצחק] לוריא... והוגה... ע"פ סדר תפלה הנדפס על ידי... ר' זלמן הענא [בית תפלה, יעסניץ תפ"ה]...

סידור עם פירוש בדרך הפשט (כולל גם פירוש לאבות ולפיוטי המערבות, ההושענות והיוצרות) והלכות רבות, שמקורו בסידור שנדפס בזולקווא. בצורתו הנוכחית נדפס הסידור לראשונה באמשטרדם תק"א (הוצאות אחרות: אמשטרדם תקכ"א, תקכ"ט, תקמ"ב, תקנ"ט). על תוכן הסידור ראה בתיאור ההוצאות הראשונות. צ, [2] דף, עם שער מיוחד: ספר תהלים מסודר ונחלק לשבעה... והושם עליו עיון גדול על פי הדקדוק... וגם הצגנו בו פירוש נאה ונקל... הפירוש הוא הפירוש הקצר שערך היינריך באסהויזן (תהלים, האנאו תע"ב). נדפס דף-על-דף כמו אמשטרדם תקנ"ט. נספח אליו: בית רחל ושער הלל יה מאת ר' נפתלי כ"ץ, אמשטרדם תקע"ו.

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