Auction 45
Lot 204:
1. Prayer for rescue from the Nazi army closing in on the Land of Israel during the Shoah—Jerusalem after 1940(?).
The leaf is entitled “a wonderful segulah during trouble to cancel the gezira, and to break the hostility…” with an order of prayers and verses to say, with hints to the Nazi enemy which then was planning on occupying the Land of Israel via the army of Erwin Rommel. At the end is a prayer with stress on rescue from “the wars of Gog and Magog”, published probably around 1942 “in the name of the kabbalists and sages and rabbis of Jerusalem”, printed by Eretz Yisrael in Jerusalem.
1 leaf, 25×34.5cm. Ink stains from writing on the second side of the leaf. Folding creases. Professionally repaired, taped on an additional page for reinforcement.
2. “To save him and his family from danger, say it once every day (and, God forbid it should happen, if there is an air raid say it again and again without cessation, and b’ezrat hashem nothing bad will happen to you”. Chapters of Psalms, verses, and prayers, printed during World War II when the Jewish Yishuv was under threat from the Nazis. Printed by Merkaz, Jerusalem.
1 leaf, 24.5x30cm. Tears in the margins and in the creases. Stains.
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