Auction 12

Prayer book, seder Me’ah She’arim—only edition, rare. Berdichov 1913

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Nusach Ari, as organized by the Admor Rabbi Shne’or Zalman Maladi, founder of Chabad Lubavitch chassidut. The siddur was first printed in 1913 in Rabbi Haim Yaakov Sheptil’s shop in Berdichov, by Rav Haim Eliezer HaKohen Bichovsky and Rav Haim Meir Hillman (the Beit Rabi), and each section of the siddur has a separate title page. Attached to the siddur is the “Machzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, as practiced by the chassidim who pray with the Arizal’s siddur, the tradition of our rabbi, the Admor Maladi, the Tanya, and the Shulchan Aruch.” There is a table of brachot according to the Shulchan Aruch, as appear in his siddur. And the book Me’ah She’arim—in which there are 50 printed bonds with sayings from Admors of Chabad, the Ba’al HaTanya and the middle Admor, Rabbi Dover Schneerson, and the Admor Rabbi Menahem Mendel Schneerson, the Tzemach Tzedek. In Chabad chassidut it is known that their machzors edited by the last Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, were based upon the Me’ah She’arim machzor which is before us, with some changes. Moth marks, anterior binding is disconnected, the first cover page and the page after are disconnected and a tad missing. The first page in the siddur is taped and the words are covered. Every prayer page is written at the top with blue ink. Generally good condition.