Auction 75
Lot 14:
Siddur Dover Shalom, Poland custom, Ashkenaz version. Prayers for all year round including the Mo’adim, Pidyon Haben, and marriage, Pirkei Avot and Haggadah, Tzidduk Hadin, Hatavat Chalom, Talmudic Pitron Chalomot and more and more. With Derech Hachaim and now for the first time, with the Dover Shalom elucidation by the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Eliyahu Landau, the Maggid of Vilna.
The title page refers to the elucidation: "וחדשים גם ישנים באור פשטי במושכל הדעת כאשר תחזינה עיני הקורא למיפעת", first edition – Wien [in practice, printed in Warsaw], 1862. [1], 88, 99-200, 207-224, 168, [7] leaves. Leaves 7-10 of Pirkei Avot are missing. In the Rare Book Collection of the National Library. The last [7] leaves appear neither in the National Library nor in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book and contain Maraviyot for Shalosh Regalim.
Most surprising!
Although he grew up and was educated in the strongholds of the Misnagdim, surprisingly, the author refers several times to leading Chassidic rabbis – at the beginning of the Siddur (leaves 9-13), a lengthy and interesting introduction by him (from 1858), titled Mevoh Hatefillah. There he refers, among others, to the Rav of Liadi. At its end, "Dinim and Hanhagot by the Rav of Buchach" and three pages later, in Zichron Yemot Olam that contains dates of historical events, on Sivan 6, he writes "The Kadosh Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov passed away". Before Birkat Hamitzvot such as Sefirat HaOmer and Levishat Tzitzit, he introduces the Chassidic version of the Leshem Yichud and on leaf 12, he writes: "VeIta Be’er Mayim Chaim".
The author and the Rav of Neshchiz!
The author, the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Eliyahu Landau of Vilna belonged to the community of Misnagdim. It is interesting to note, however, that a letter by him to the Rav of Neshchiz dealing with public activity appears in the book Zikaron Tov about Rabbi Yitzchak of Neschiz. In that letter, he refers to the Rav of Neshchiz with reverence and admiration (see there in the gloss Rabbi Yitzchak – the Gabai of the Rav of Neshchiz about his personal acquaintance with Rabbeinu and his great appreciation of him).
Fine new binding. Detached sheets. Moth perforations. Stains of tears and wear, mainly to the Shacharit prayer. Good overall condition.
On leaf a of the second pagination, a signature on the top of the page: "בנימין דוד ראבינאוויטץ". Apparently, Rabbi Binyamin David Rabinovich who was a Rav and Maggid Meisharim in Warsaw, the son of Rabbi Yitzchak Av Beit Din of Tshenstachov, author of Efor Bad on the Passover Haggadah, Avnet Bad and Kuntres Dovev Siftei Yesheinim.
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