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Rare! Adam Sichli – With Special Yom Kippur PrayerTiengen, 1560. First Edition.
Rare!
Adam Sichli – With Special Yom Kippur Prayer
Tiengen, 1560. First Edition.
A kabbalistic commentary on the Rambam’s Thirteen Principles of Jewish Faith, Yud-Gimmel Middos Harachamim (the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy) and Aseres Hadibros by Rabbi Shimon ben Rabbi Shmuel of France.
This sefer features the Rambam’s Thirteen Principles of Jewish Faith with Rabbi Shimon’s commentary beside it.
The central idea of this sefer is to demonstrate the connection between the Thirteen Principles of Faith and Yud-Gimmel Middos Harachamim with an explanation of the Ten Commandments interwoven throughout.
Rabbi Shimon ben Rabbi Shmuel of France was one of the great Ashkenazic sages of his era. He authored the present sefer in 1400 (as noted at the end of the work). Adam Sichli was widely disseminated and there are many handwritten manuscripts of this work, yet this was the very first printed edition of the sefer, which was later reprinted in numerous editions.
At the top of the pages are the words ‘Hadras Kodesh’ – the second title of this sefer, as noted on the title page.
Leaves 19-20 present a brief description of the Ten Sefiros with commentary.
From leaf 21 onward, there is a long prayer of repentance for Yom Kippur.
The Rema in his sefer Toras Olah Vol. 3 Ch. 4 quotes this prayer and writes, “And so the great Rabbi Shimon instituted in his prayer ‘Hadras Kodesh’ after presenting the Ten Sefiros.”
From the sefer Yosef Ometz (Frankfurt am Main, 1723), section 999, it appears that some had the custom to recite this prayer on the night of Yom Kippur.
Printing press of Tiengen
Printing press of Tiengen
In the town of Tiengen, in the Baden region of Germany, near the French border, a Jewish printing press was established that operated for one year only — ש"כ] 1560].
Though the press produced just six books, those few works were rare and significant, leaving a lasting imprint on Torah literature. Among the best known, besides the present volume, are Siddur Rabbi Hertz, Zohar Chadash on Megillas Rus, and Shir HaYichud.
Tiengen, 1560. First edition.
Page Count: [24] leaves.
Size: 17.2 cm.
Condition: Good–fair; wear to the corners of the opening and closing leaves, with minor restorations. A few letters were trimmed at the margins of leaves [2–3]. New leather binding.
Size: 17.2 cm.
Condition: Good–fair; wear to the corners of the opening and closing leaves, with minor restorations. A few letters were trimmed at the margins of leaves [2–3]. New leather binding.
Early signatures on the title page and its verso: “Alexandri son of R’ Avraham, z"l”; “.. Alexander Gutkind, son of the chaver R’ Yehuda Leib, shlita.”
Early glosses (very faint) appear on leaves [11b] and [21a].
