Seder Selichot Vetachnunim, for the High Festivals and Four Fasts in accordance with the customs of France and Germany .
Lunéville, [1799]. Avraham Prizek
Sefer Selichot in large format, includes morning service, with the full order of Selichot. Laws and commentary in “Ashkenazit” [Yiddish-Deutsch in traditional letters] and the order of Kapparot.]
Two title pages, the first illustrated with the figures of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob [Dream of the Ladder] and Jonah the Prophet [hinting at the name of the publisher Rabbi Jonah Willstadt?]
Second title page with signature of the Gaon Rabbi Pilta ben Moshe Segal Leibold-Epstein. Born in Offenbach in 1745 . He studied in Frankfurt am Main, Fürth, and Prague. Initially, he served as a private tutor in Frankfurt am Main and later became the head of the rabbinical court (Av Beit Din) and a teacher at the Modl Kloiz in Karlsruhe. At some point, he also served as the deputy to the city’s rabbi, Rabbi Yedidya Tia Weil. He established a printing press, first in Rastatt and then in Karlsruhe, together with his brother-in-law, Rabbi Leib ben Moshe Wirmish. There, he published Rabbi Yedidya Tia Weil’s Haggadah, "Marbeh Lesaper." He also became his in-law when his son, Rabbi Avraham Weil, the head of the rabbinical court of Salzburg, married his daughter. From 1791, he served for about thirty years as the head of the rabbinical court in Bruchsal in the Baden region of Germany, until his passing at the age of 76 on Shabbat Chol HaMoed Pesach, the 19th of Nisan, 1821. He was buried in the Ober-Grombach cemetery.
[2], 261 leaves. 23.2 cm.
Overall Very Good condition, quality pages, few stains, original binding damaged, front cover partially detached.
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