The Sefer contains all of the laws a person needs for the entire year in a concise style. It includes the laws of festivals and repentance, prayer and blessings, marital relations, issur v’heter and more. On the title page, it is noted that the Sefer was printed at the command of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev, as the publisher writes in his foreword: "And I owe many thanks and I will cherish with all my heart to his honor the famous Gaon and Chassid, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev, who, when seeing that this honorable book had ceased to exist after many years in which it was not printed, and it is extremely rare and many people don’t know of it … he arose to awaken the hearts of men, to bring it to print …"


Signatures, stamps & marginalia of Shimon Bachrach (Bacher 1823-1891) Hungarian Poet & writer. He authored a few Seforim,   

Bacher, whose name was originally Bachrach, came of a family of scholars, and counted as one of his ancestors the well-known Moravian-German rabbi Jair Ḥayyim Bacharach. He studied Talmud in his native city, and in Mikulov under Menahem Nahum Trebitsch, and under Moses Perles in Eisenstadt and Bonyhád. During this period Bacher was much influenced by the new movement of the Haskalah, and he also studied the secular sciences and literature.

[2]. 110, [1] pages.

23 Cm.

Very Good condition, thick good quality paper, old binding detached.

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Roke'ach HaGadol – Printed at the Behest of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev . Zhovkva 1806.

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