Classics. Siddur HaSHLa”H. Sha’ar Ha’Shamayim. First edition Amsterdam 1717. Fine Copy! Segulah! With Unidentified ...

Classics. Siddur HaSHLa”H. Sha’ar Ha’Shamayim. First edition Amsterdam 1717. Fine Copy! Segulah! With Unidentified Rabbinical Signatures and Glosses. Variant Copy (with one blank and additional handwritten prayers).
Siddur Sha’ar Ha’Shamayim, including the weekday, Shabbos and Yom Tov prayers, Yotzros, the Pesach Haggadah, Piyutim, Selichos for the fast days, Sefer Tehillim with the Maamados, all including a commentary according to Kabbalistic teachings by R. Yeshaya HaLevy Horowitz, the SHLa”H HaKadosh. Complete copy including all three parts, with four title pages, the first being a copper engraving depicting the figures of Avrohom, Yitzchak and Yaakov as well as the Yomim Tovim. With separate title pages for the book of Tehillim and the Seder Maamados.
Includes an anthology of laws and customs, by the editor and publisher R. Avrohom Segal Horowitz of Posen, a great-grandson of the author.
In his foreword to the siddur, the SHLa”H writes “Blessed is HaShem… who guided me in the correct path… and brought me to the Holy City of Yerusholayim……. the gate through which prayers rise…via Sha’ar Ha’Shamayim (the Gates of Heaven)”.
In his will, (printed at the beginning of the siddur), he writes “I undertook to author this holy work, in order to print it and distribute it throughout the Jewish world, so that I may have a merit and share in all the prayers of the Jewish people”.
It is widely accepted that praying from this siddur bears the special Segulah of the prayer being accepted and not going unanswered. As the Ba”CH wrote in his famous approbation to the siddur “We have no doubt that when it will become widespread amongst the Jewish people, whoever prays from it will not have his prayer rejected”.
The renowned Kabbalist R. Naftali Katz (Semichas Chachamim(, ascribes this Segulah to the author himself, as he writes “the order of prayers…from the beginning of the year until the end of the year, arranged and composed by R. Yeshaya Segal author of the Shnei Luchos HaBris……….directed his descendants to publish it, to give the public the privilege of praying in this order, with these Kavanos, and pledged that whoever prays with all his might in this order with those Kavanos, his prayers will not go unanswered. Go out and see how people practice, and the approbations of the great Torah scholars of that generation…R. Yoel Sirkis (Ba”CH), R. Yaakov Rav of Lublin…R. Yom Tov Lipmann Heller (Tosfos Yom Tov)…and they all concur that whoever prays with these Kavanos, his prayers will not be rejected”.
Stefansky Hebrew Classics 413. Vinograd Amsterdam 1114. Antonis press. [5], 4-335; 139; 130; [1], 52 pages. 22 cm. Overall fine condition. Some stains and wear. A well-used copy. Some professional restorations. Magnificent original wood and leather binding professionally restored.
On page 16b, instead of the beginning of Hilchos Tzitzis, there is a blank side. This unusual discrepancy has been recorded in other copies of the siddur. In this copy the blank page is inscribed with a lengthy handwritten prayer.
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