Selections from the Siddur Rashash : manuscript.
חלקים מסידור הרש"ש.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Sharabi, Shalom, 1720-1777, author.

Contributor:

Alḥadad, Masʻud ben Daṿid, 1820-1927, former owner.

Gross, William L., former owner.

Yeshivat Bet El (Jerusalem), associated name.

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

אלחדד, מסעוד בן דוד

אבולעפיא, ידידיה רפאל חי.

ישיבת בית אל (ירושלים)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Siddur (Ari)--18th century--Commentaries.

Siddur (Ari).

Kavvanot (Cabala).

Tetragrammaton.

Jews--Jerusalem--19th century--History--Sources.

Jews.

Rosh Hodesh--Liturgy--Texts.

Rosh Hodesh.

Passover--Liturgy--Texts.

Passover.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 19th century.

codices (bound manuscripts)

calligraphy (visual works)

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Tel Aviv collector William L. Gross (Kedem); former call number The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, EI.011.004.

Sold by Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), Sale 92 lot 154 (as part of selections from the Gross Family Collection).

Formerly owned by Masʻud ben Daṿid Alḥadad (Jerusalem, 1820-1927; gilt stamp, binding: "מסעוד הכהן הי"ו").

Physical Description:

100 leaves : paper ; 208 x 151 mm bound to 216 x 160 mm.

Production:

[Jerusalem], [1869-1899?].

[ירושלים], [1869-1899?].

Language Note:

In Hebrew.

Summary:

This is a manuscript of the cabalistic Siddur Rashash (also known as Siddur ha-Kavvanot) with selections from the Ari rite; the first section of liturgy is the Kaddish (f. 1r-2v), Minḥah (f. 3v-10r, with Kavvanot additions for Friday afternoon and for Minḥah preceding Passover), the Amidah (f. 11r-67r), Priestly Blessing (f. 67v-73r), the commentary on the Amidah by Yedidyah Refaʼel Ḥai Abulʻafiya (1807-1869; referred in the manuscript as "ha-rav ravin ḥasida ha-Y.A.R.E.H. z.a.l."; f. 74r-89v); Kavvanot on Psalms XL:17 (f. 90r-91r); the Amidah for Musaf on Passover (f. 91r-92v); Hallel (f. 92v-96v); Musaf Amidah for Rosh Hodesh (f. 97r-98v); and a prayer for drought (f. 99r-100v). Remnants of paper wrapper surviving in the contemporary binding suggest that this is a composite manuscript in which pieces of the Siddur Rashash were selected at a later time; written in the style of the scribes at Yeshivat Bei El in the Old City of Jerusalem. Liturgical and Kavvanot sections written mostly in two columns (each blind-ruled with vertical bounding lines); written in a Moroccan-Jerusalemite calligraphic script (liturgical text) and Sephardic semicursive text (instruction, Abulʻafiya commentary); partially vocalized and punctuated on specific Kavvanot; columns of Divine Names justified by exaggerating letters (such as f. 49v, 50r). Certain folios with smudging and fingerprints; bound in a contemporary full-leather binding with gilt-designed circumferential borders and blind-tooled circular patterns in boards.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Related Collections:

Another manuscript of selections from the Siddur Rashash, formerly in the Gross Family Collection, is UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 644.

Cited as:

Selections from the Siddur Rashash. (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 645). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Selections from the Siddur Rashash (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 645). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Abulʻafiya, Yedidyah Refaʼel Ḥai. Haḳdamot ha-shayakhim li-Tefilat Shemoneh ʻeśreh.

Kaddish.

Minḥah.

Amidah (Jewish prayer)

Priestly blessing.

Bible. Psalms, XL.

Musaf.

Hallel.

אבולעפיא, ידידיה רפאל חי. הקדמות השייכים לתפילת שמונה עשרה.

OCLC:

1395575389