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Lot #    5774
Auction End Date    10/8/2003 1:22:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Seder Shevahot shel col ha-Shanah
Title (Hebrew)    שבחות של כל השנה
Author    R. Eliezer b. [Meir] Aaron Saadiah ha-Kohen Arak
City    Bombay
Publisher    Aaron, Jacob, and Samuel
Publication Date    1887
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Partial first edition. [2], 13, 200 pp., octavo, 168:120 mm., usual light age staining. A very good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    More than 231 bekashot (supplications), piyutim and pizmonim (liturgical poetry), Many for special occasions, such as Shabbat Kodesh, Rosh Ha-Shanah, and Simhat Tora. Most of Seder Shevahot is taken from the Sefer Pizmonim (Calcutta, 1856) arranged by R. Eliezer ben [Meir] Aaron Saadiah ha-Kohen Arakie, with additions and omissions. Among the additons are pizmonim for the Sassoon family. R. Arakie’s name does not appear on the title page, which informs that it was brought to press by R. Moses Judah Kohen Shamash. The first thirteen pages have an index of the bekashot. There are additional bekashot besides the 231 that are numbered. At the end of the book it is noted in English that it was printed in Bombay at the Anglo-Jewish and Vernacular Press, opposite Musjid Bunder Railway station.

R. Eliezer ben [Meir] Aaron Saadiah ha-Kohen Arakie (1800-64), a native of Cochin, established the first Hebrew printing press in India in Calcutta in 1840–41. Until then the published writings of the Cochin Jews were printed in Amsterdam. Between 1841 and 1856 he produced about 28 Hebrew books of a halakhic, liturgical, and literary nature. Not only did R. Arakie operate the press but he selected the books to be printed, edited a number of them, and translated some works, for example, the haggadah from the Persion language, into Hebrew, and corrected the text of others.

          
Paragraph 2    נדפסה בהוצאות ה"ר משה יהודה כהן... שמאש[!] ק"ק כנסת אליהו... ותהי השלמתו בחודש רחמים...

בשער: "נדפסה על ידי אהרן יעקב שמואל". כולל רצא בקשות, פיוטים ופזמונים "לשבת קדש", "שירי חידות", בקשות "לראש השנה" ופזמונים. רוב הספר הוא העתקה של ספר הפזמונים, בעריכת ר' אלעזר הכהן עראקי, כלכתה תרט"ז, בהשמטות והוספות. במיוחד נוספה בסוף הספר (סי' רסו ואילך) חטיבה גדולה ובתוכה שירים לכבוד בני משפחת ששון בהודו (סימן רפט: שיר מאת ששון ישראל לכבוד השר עבדאלה דוד ששון; סימן רצ: שיר מאת נסים אלישע זכריה לכבוד יעקב אליהו דוד ששון).

          
Reference
Description		    Bet Eked 221; Yaari, Ha-Defus ha-Ivri be-Artzot ha-Mizrach II pp. 9-13, 62 no. 49; CD-EPI 0314429
        
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    India
  
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Kabbalah:    Checked
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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