Sidur ha-Ari zal : ket. y. / nikhtav ʻal yede Yo. Ṭ. bar Aryeh Leyb Lipman Helir.
סדור האר״י ז״ל : כת״י נכתב על ידי יו״ט ב״ר אריה ליב ליפמן הליר.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reich Rare Judaica Facsimile Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572.

Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620.

Helir, Yo. Ṭ. ben Aryeh Leyb Lipman (Yom Ṭov ben Aryeh Leyb Lipman)

Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai, approximately 1620-1697.

Library at the Katz Center Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

לוריא, יצחק בן שלמה, 1534-1572.

Vital, Ḥayyim ben Joseph, 1542 or 1543-1620

Zacuto, Moses ben Mordecai, approximately 1620-1697

Standardized Title:

Siddur (Ari)

סדור (אר״י) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82071933

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Siddur (Ari).

Judaism--Ari rite--Liturgy--Texts.

Judaism.

Judaism--Ari rite--Liturgy.

Scribes, Jewish--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Scribes, Jewish.

Siddur (Ari)--Texts.

Genre:

Texts.

Handbooks and manuals.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 volume ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn N.Y.] : [Renaissance Hebraica], [1994?]

Notes:

Spine title.

"The manuscript of the siddur based on the teachings of R. Isaac Luria (1534-1572) as transmitted by his disciple, R. Hayyim Vital (1543-1620), was copied by R. Tom Tov ben Aryeh Leib Lipmann, descendant of R. Yom Tov Lippman ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller (1579-1654), author of Tosefot Yom Tov, the well-known commentary on the Mishnah. The date of the manuscript, according to the sha'ar is 498, i.e., 1738. The manuscript is written in a beautifully ornate German script that is eminently readable. Appended to the siddur is the kabbalistic responsum of R. Moses ben Mordecai Zucuto (c. 1620-1697) to the rabbis of Cracow on the copying of Torah scrolls, tefillin, and mezuzot, which has been published several times.

The front and back leaves of the manuscript contain material written in another hand. From this additional material we learn that the manuscript was presented as a gift on Thursday, the twenty-sixth of Adar, 5577 (i.e. 1817), in Mardin, a town in Turkish Kurdistan, to the bridegroom, Benjamin b. Moses, and his bride, Hanah b. Samuel Duwayk ha-Kohen. There is some discrepancy concerning this date, for near the very end of the text, the date is given as 5567.

This unique manuscript will be of great interest to scholars of Jewish mysticism. Here one finds another piece of solid textual evidence indicating how prfoundly Lurianic kabbalah influenced Ashkenazi Jewry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Of particular significance is the merging of the tenets of Lurianic kabbalah and older Ashkenazi traditions based on numerology and other esoteric techniques. The adaptation of the complex doctrines of Lurianic kabbalah was no doubt facilitated by the resemblance that Luria's teachings had to these older Ahkenazi traditions, in many cases going back to the Haside Ashkenaz of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. I have little doubt that study of this text will contribute greatly to our understanding of the religious culture of Ashkenazi communities at this time."--Publisher's note, July 1, 1994.

Reproduction of the original manuscript by R. Yom Tov ben Aryeh Leib Lipmann, dated 1737.

Local Notes:

Purchased thanks to the generous support of Philip Lindy.

OCLC:

54620292