Handwritten Siddur HaRambam. Magnificent! Sanaa, 1825.
“Order of prayer as instituted by the great sage and Rabbi…glory of Israel, the Rambam, ztvk”l” with commentary Eitz Chaim by the Maharitz.
2 impressive handwritten volumes. Both title pages are illustrated and feature decorative borders in red ink. Dozens of headers and hundreds of words throughout the siddur are also bordered in red ink.
Body of siddur written in large block letters with punctuation (nekudos) and surrounded by the Maharitz’s commentary Eitz Chaim.
Volume 1: Prayers for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Four Fasts & Tisha B’Av
Volume 2: Complete Prayers for Three Festivals, Maamados, Passover Haggadah, with commentary by Maharitz.
Sanaa, 1826-1827.
Volume 1: 130 leaves; detailed colophon by the renowned scribe Yosef ben Shalom who handwrote this siddur for Salim ben Avraham Al-Hamadi in 1826. Volume 2: 192 leaves.
Both volumes bound in parchment. Good condition. Remarkable!
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Siddur HaRambam
Yemenite Jews accepted the Rambam as their prime Rabbinical authority and strictly adhered to all his rulings. They established their prayers based on the Rambam’s rulings in Seder Hatefillah as printed in Mishnah Torah at the end of Seder Ahavah, Over time however, other versions and slight changes were introduced into this text.
The famed Yemenite kabbalist Rabbi Yichya Salah reviewed, refined and created a single order and prayer text based on the Rambam. His version, known as the Baladi Nusach, was accepted as binding by the majority of Yemenite Jews. Around the prayer text, the Maharitz inscribed laws and explanations both on the Hidden and Revealed Torah in a commentary entitled Eitz Chaim.
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