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Bidding Information
Lot #    24451
Auction End Date    8/11/2009 11:35:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Yedid Nsfesh (Pirke Shirah)
Title (Hebrew)    ידיד נפש [פרקי שירה]
Author    [Unrecorded]
City    New York
Publication Date    1922
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    56, [1] pp., 187:130 mm., light age staining, gild edges. A very good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed. Not in bibliographies.
          
Detailed
Description		    Pirke Shira with a Yiddish translation. Pirkei Shira is a chapter of song and praise to G-d by heavenly and earthly bodies, and by plants and dumb creatures. It is composed of Scriptural verses, one or two for each creature enumerated; and it is divided, according to subjects, into six parts, one for each of the six week-days, though the whole chapter is repeated every day at the morning prayer, except on Sabbath, when the "Shir ha-Yihud" is substituted. The reciting of Pirke Shirah, however, is not obligatory, and is not observed generally, except by very pious Israelites. R. Isaac Luria recognized the worth of Pirkei Shira from a Kabbalistic standpoint and many followers of Kabbalah have used it extensively.
          
Reference
Description		    EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
Liturgy:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew, Yiddish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica