Physical Description

First edition, octavo, 16 pp. 240:170 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original wrappers.

Detail Description

Liturgical work reflecting the pain in our heart reflecting the times of trouble of Jacob, water reaching to our souls. The title-page states that it was necessary to publish this work so that it would be found in the hands of all, so that we could all increase our prayers and supplications as one before the Holy One. Perhaps He would have compassion on the remnant of His people, the flock of his pasture. The text is comprised of the order of prayers and bekashot to be recited at the time of trouble in 1940. It includes hakafot on Hoshanah Rabba according to the custom of the Sephardim.

R. Judah Moses Ftayya (Petaya, 1859–1942 of Baghdad kabbalist was a student of Rabbi Joseph Ḥayyim al-Ḥakam (Ben Ish Ḥay). R. Ftayya eventually took up residence in Jerusalem, where he exerted great influence through his writings, activities, and the illustrious family he founded. He studied there with R. Ḥayyim Saul Duwayk, who after succumbing to blindness dictated his commentary on R. Ḥayyim Vital’s Oṣrot Ḥayyim, Efah Shelema to R. Ftayya and R. Joseph Ḥayyim Sofer. R. Ftayya cared for R. Duwayk in his infirmity, aided by Sulaymān Moṣfi.

Hebrew Description

סדר ... מה שעשינו ... בעיר הקודש ירושלים ... בשנת תקע בשופר גדול ל'ח'ר'ו'ת'נ'ו' [ת"ש] אשר היתה עת צרה ליעקב ... [מאת] יאודה משה ישועה פתייא...

בראש המחברת: סדר בקשת רחמים בעת צרה שלא תבוא שהיה בשנת ת"ש.
כולל הקפות מתוך סדר הושענות להושענא רבא כמנהג הספרדים, קטעים מהזוהר ותפלות.
מחברת זו יצאה לאור, בשינויים, בירושלים בשנת ת"ש, בשם "ספר ההקפות" ובשם "סדר ההקפות", ובשנת תש"א בשם "סדר נוסח ההקפות".

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