Collection of dozens of prayer an supplication books, and collected prayers. Europe, 1815-1913.
Collection of [25] books and compilations with prayers and halachot for women. Germany, Lithuania, and Poland, 1815-1913, including rare and noble items.
✵ “Gebetbuch, Für Gebildete Freunzimmer Majaisher Religion” by Peretz Baer. K. W. Enders press. Prague, 1815. Single edition, rare.
[2], 202, [13] pp. 16cm. With German title page. Yiddish in Tzor font.
Partially dismantled leather binding. Rear cover detached. Damage to spine and several pages are partially detached. Stains. Fair condition.
✵ Order of supplications and petitions ‘Für Frome Jüdische Frauen’. Rödelheim, 1854.
88pp. 18cm. Yiddish
Damaged and partially detached half-leather binding. Front cover detached. Stains. Fair condition.
✵ Order of supplications and petitions. Yosef Reuven Ram press, Vilna, 1857.
[1] 4-44 pp. 19cm. Pages 2-3 are missing. Ownership notation, exemplar of the chaste Rebbetzin, wife of the Rabbi of Restowitz. Stamped “Merka Miriam”.
No cover. Incomplete exemplar. Stains. A few moth holes.. folds and defects in page corners. Fair condition.
✵ Order of supplications and petitions ‘Für Frome Jüdische Frauen’. Rödelheim, 1861.
80 pp. 18cm. Missing last [4] pages. Yiddish.
Incomplete exemplar. Damaged binding with missing front cover. Stains. Pasting on corner of last page. Fair condition.
✵ Chovat Nashim. Halachot (by Rabbi Eizik Meir Dik). Yitzchak Goldman press, Warsaw, 1873. First edition. Noble exemplar.
43 pp. 19cm. With diacritics. Ownership notation on last page: “Belongs to the chaste Rebbetzin, Mrs. Merka, wife of the Rav, the Gaon, pride of the city, our teacher, Rabbi Meir Yosef, Av Beis Din of Jonawa”.
Missing cover. Folds and defects on page corners. Stains. Last pages nearly completely detached. fair condition.
The Gaon Rabbi Meir Yosef Kotkin (born in 1827) ‘The Tzaddik of Jonawa’ – author of Sefer “Panim Me’irot” on the Yerushalmi, which he printed in 500 exemplars and distributed for free among the Torah scholars of his generation. Was a disciple of Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Eishishker, author of Responsa “Amudei Esh”, and the son and disciple of the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Elazar Chaim, from the leading disciples of Rabbeinu Chaim of Volozhin. At the age of 15 he married Mrs. Merka, daughter of the businessman Moshe Gandz of Wolkovisk, who was renowned for her qualities and her selflessness for the sake of Torah study. Rabbi Meir Yosef served as Av Beis Din of Rossia and in Brestowitz, and from there moved on to serve as the Av Beis Din of Jonawa (Kaunas County, Lithuania) for nearly 30 years.
✵ Prayers and Suplications ‘Mikra Kodesh’, Twelve supplications for Blessing the New Month. Press of the Widow and Brothers Ram. Vilna, 1883. Extremely rare, does not exist in the National Library and is not listed in the United Catalog or in the Hebrew Book Bibliography.
16 pp. 16cm. Yiddish with diacritics. Renewed soft cover, stains and moth holes. Wear on page corners. Fair-good condition.
✵ “A New Supplication For Se’udah Shlishit from Yerushalayim, For the Whole Year, With a Hundred Merits”. A. Boimritter press, Warsaw, 1910.
83, [1] pp. 18cm. Yiddish, with diacritics. Simple, detached cover. Short tears and folds on bottom of some pages. Fair-good condition.
✵ “Supplication Birkat Kodes”, for Shabbos and holidays. Press of the Widow and Brothers Ram. Vilna, 1913. Extremely rare, does not exist in the National Library and is not listed in the United Catalog or in the Hebrew Book Bibliography.
[1], 14 pp. 16cm. Yiddish with translation to Hebrew. The pages were printed and bount out of order. Short tear on bottom of the page fold. Good condition.
• Collection of [17] pamphlets of supplications, printed on pages which were taken out of other Seforim.
✵ Mothers’ Supplication, for Rosh Chodesh Ellul. Yiddish, Tzor font. Pp. 173 (should be 73)-80, 19cm. R”M Romah press, Vilna, 1848, with ownership notation. Exemplar of “the Rebbetzin of Brestowicz”.
✵ Supplication ‘Shlosha She’arim’. Yiddish, Tzor font. 16 pp. 19cm. R”M Romah press, Vilna, 1853.
✵ Supplication ‘Kol Bechiya’, brought from Eretz Yisrael. Yiddish, Tzor font. Pp. 41-48, 19cm. R”M Romah press, Vilna, 1853.
✵ Supplication ‘Meshiv Nefesh’, a prayer for women. Yiddish, Tzor font. Pp. 73-80 19cm. R”M Romah press, Vilna, 1855.
✵ Supplication for Blessing Rosh Chodesh. Yiddish, Tzor font. 7, [1] pp. 19cm. R”M Romah press, Vilna, 1856. Missing spine. Bottom of one of the double pages cut on bottom.
✵ New Supplication on Sustenance. Yiddish, Tzor font. Pp. 105-112, 19cm. R”M Romah press, Vilna, 1857. No cover. Wear on page margins.
✵ Supplication ‘Teshuva, Tefilah, and Tzedakah’. Yiddish, Tzor font. Pp. 81-88, 19cm. R”M Romah press, Vilna, 1857. No cover. Wear on page margins.
✵ Supplication Sha’arei Dema’ot. Yiddish, Tzor font. Pp. 41-48, 19cm. R”M Romah press, Vilna, 1857. No cover. Wear on page corners.
✵ Supplication ‘Es Ratzon’. Yiddish with diacritics. 4pp. 18cm. Finn and Rosenkrantz press, Vilna, 1871. Moth markings and damage to the corners.
✵ Supplication ‘Teshuva, Tefilah, and Tzedakah’. Yiddish, Tzor font. [4] pp. 14cm. No cover or spine.
✵ Supplication before Davening. Yiddish, Tzor font. Pp. 33-38, 19cm. Incomplete exemplar. No cover. Tear with pasting. Wear on page margins.
✵ Supplication “Shisha Sedarim”. Yiddish. [6] pp. 18cm. No cover.
✵ Tikkun Shalosh Mishmarot, Requests and Supplications. Yiddish with diacritics. 2-25 pp. 17cm. No cover. Tears, pastings and wear on page margins. Small defects with damage to text.
✵ “The New Yerushalayim Supplication”. Yiddish with diacritics. 8 pp. 16cm. No cover or spine.
✵ “Ein Techina Dos Men Zogt Ven Men Rosh Chodesh Bentcht” (A Supplication Said When Blessing Rosh Chodesh) Hebrew and Yiddish. [26] pp. With added extra-long margins. Pg. length with addition: 23cm. No cover. Damaged spine.
Overall condition: Fair. Stains and creases. A few moth holes in a small amount of items.
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