Lot 123
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Seder Teki'at Shofar (Order of Shofar Blowing), Scribe: Tzvi Hirsch of Kanisza, Austria/Hungary: 1796

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Description

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8 leaves (10 x 6 3/4 in.; 255 x 172 mm). Written in brown ink on parchment in Ashkenazic square, semi-cursive, and STAM. Very lightly soiled. Contemporary tree-calf; trace worming to boards only, not entering textblock.

Catalogue Note

This manuscript contains prayers for Rosh ha-Shanah, including the haftarot (readings from the books of the Prophets) for both days of the Jewish New Year as well as verses to be recited during the sounding of the shofar (ram's horn). In the 18th and 19th centuries, it was not uncommon for individuals to create personal manuscript liturgies to augment the more comprehensive texts of printed prayer books. The text (fol.1r) states that the scribe completed the commission for Isaac ben Issachar Ber of Luckenbach on the eve of the New Year of 5557 (2 October 1796.) The scribe of this manuscript, Tzvi Hirsch of Kanisza included the mystical intentions of Rabbi Isaac Luria as they appeared in the kabbalistic treatise Amtahat Binyamin written by the Baal Shem, Binyamin Binush.