Year-round prayer according to the Polish rite. Amsterdam: Yochanan Levi Rofe and his son Binyamin, 1819. Bound with: Book of Tehillim arranged according to the days of the week, with a Yiddish commentary and Techinot (supplications). Amsterdam: Yochanan Levi Rofe and his son Binyamin, 1822-1823.
Divisional title pages for Tehillim and Techinot.

Woman's Siddur in elegant leather binding, with gilt decorations and silver clasps – fully marked, with marks for Amsterdam (lion in a diamond), the year (P with a circle – 1849) and the maker (AL and 20 in a square – Lanzonder, Adrianus Hoolbos). Original colorful endpaper.
On the front binding is an inscription of the woman's name: "Nena wife of Avraham of Emden".

On the front endpaper are inscriptions of births in the woman's handwriting (inscriptions on three daughters born to her in 1851, 1854 and 1857; one inscription from 1851 deleted on the birth of a son who apparently later died).
The Siddur includes a handwritten leaf with a prayer for a birthing mother mentioning the woman's name: "Nena born to Chanah".

[1], 243; 64-135, [1]; 36 leaves. Tehillim and Techinot: 144 leaves. Missing 92 leaves from the second sequence in the Siddur. In their place are bound leaves 64-135, [1], evidently from another edition. 20.5 cm. Gilt edges. Most leaves in good-fair condition, about 30 of the last leaves in fair condition. Many stains, including dampstains and traces of former dampness, with mold stains to last tens of leaves. Wear. Tears in several places. Early leather binding, with clasps. Much wear and damage to binding, tears across the binding (remains of paper stuck to back side of binding).

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Tefillah LeMoshe siddur, year-round prayers according to the Sephardic-Chassidic rite, with the kabbalistic Tefillah LeMoshe commentary by R. Moshe Cordovero (the Ramak). Includes Or HaYashar – ethical and Chassidic conduct according to kabbalah, by R. Meir Poppers, and Derech HaChaim on the laws of prayer by R. Yaakov of Lissa. Premishla (Przemyśl): Zupnik, Knoller and Hammerschmidt, 1892. First edition. Two parts in one volume.

Copy of R. Yehudah Lichtenstein, Rabbi of Beclean, with his stamps in Hebrew and Latin script: "Yehudah Lichtenstein – Rabbi of Bethlen and the region – Beclean".
This Siddur was later handed down to another family member, who writes that he received it as a wedding gift from his brother-in-law R. Moshe Aryeh Gottesman who had received it from the writer's father. On the back endpaper are records of births.

R. Yehudah Lichtenstein (1855-1921), son and successor of R. Yaakov Koppel Lichtenstein Rabbi of Beclean (brother of R. Hillel Lichtenstein, Rabbi of Kolomyia), served as Rabbi of Beclean and headed an important yeshiva that at times numbered over a hundred students.

The present book contains 19 approbations from the leading Chassidic masters of the time, including Rebbe Yehoshua of Belz, Rebbe Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam of Shinova, Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov and Rebbe Baruch Hager of Vizhnitz, extolling the virtues of this siddur and assuring that it will bring blessing into the home. Rebbe Uri of Sambor writes: "Whoever purchases the holy siddur will be blessed with sons, life and abundant sustenance, and it will serve as a protection for his home".

[6]; [3], 2-24; [1], 2-189, [4], 190-286 leaves; [2], 289-432 leaves; 8 leaves; 4, [1], 5-48, [3] leaves. 22.5 cm. Dark, dry paper. Overall fair condition. Stains, including dark stains and wear. Tears, including open tears, affecting large portions of text on six leaves: first title page, leaf [2] (repaired with paper filling and text replacement), and several leaves in the book. Original leather binding, with new spine.

[4] leaves with Shir HaShirim, bound in the present copy between leaves 189-190, are not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book nor in the National Library of Israel (though they do appear in the Chabad Library copy digitized on HebrewBooks).

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Siddur Chemdat Yisrael, with the Arizal's kavanot. Munkacs: published by Shmuel Zanvil Kahana, in the Kohn & Klein press, 1901.

In his approbation, the Imrei Yosef of Spinka assures whoever purchases this siddur that it will protect his home from all illness, and bring an abundance of blessing and success, children, life and easy sustenance.
Handwritten inscription on title page by R. Efraim Asher HaLevi Rottenberg (rabbi of Ner Yisrael community in Los Angeles).

[4], 280 leaves. 22 cm. Dry, brittle paper. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears, including open tears to margins of title page (slightly affecting text on the reverse side of the leaf), and additional leaves. New binding.

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Yalkut Shimoni, collection of midrashim by R. Shimon HaDarshan, Part I on the Torah. [Thessaloniki: Moshe Soncino, 1527]. Part II, on Neviim and Ketuvim. [Thessaloniki: Don Yehudah Gedaliah, 1521]. Two volumes.
First editions of both parts. Part II on Neviim and Ketuvim was printed before Part I on the Torah.
Both parts incomplete (Part II printed without title page, but missing beginning).

The present item is the first edition of Yalkut Shimoni. The cross-references (Remazim) printed correctly in this edition were mistaken as sections and therefore misplaced in all subsequent editions.
Glosses in several places (mainly in second volume), as well as handwritten notations to some leaves.

Two volumes. First volume (Torah): 2-65; 372 leaves. After leaf 65 is bound [1] blank leaf. Missing 7 leaves: Title page and leaves 373-378 (with photocopy replacement). Volume II (Neviim and Ketuvim): 2-[140]; 68; [141]-236 leaves. Missing first leaf (with photocopy replacement; next to it is a photocopy replacement for leaves 2-4 due to large open tears to original leaves). 68 leaves of Tehillim are bound between leaves [140]-[141] (numbered 138-139). Approx. 29 cm. First volume in fair condition, second volume in fair-poor condition. Many stains, including large dampstains and traces of past dampness with mold stains. Wear (heavy wear to volume II). Worming, affecting text. Many tears (especially to second volume), including open tears affecting text (large open tears to first leaves of the second volume, heavily affecting text), partially repaired with paper. Many leaves in both volumes were apparently replaced from other copies (margins of some leaves in the second volume replaced with paper filling). New parchment bindings.

Provenance: Estate of Prof. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach.

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Nehar Pishon, homilies on the Torah and Talmud by R. Yitzchak Aboab (the second). Constantinople: Eliezer son of Gershom Soncino, Shevat 1538. First edition.
Signature in Sephardic script on title page.

[80] leaves. 20 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains and dark stains. Open tears to title page and several additional leaves, affecting title frame and text on verso of leaf, and slightly affecting text in several additional places, repaired with paper and paper filling (with replacement for title frame). Light worming, slightly affecting text. Stamps and handwritten inscriptions. New leather binding.

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