Machzor for Yom Kippur, according the custom of the Sephardim of Constantine and the Eastern countries and Western Italy, with the prayers from the writings of the Ari and from Sefer Chemdat Yamim with the glosses of Rabbi Chaim Modai and with Bakashot by Rabbi David Pardo and from Sefer Otzar Nehcmad.
Livorno, 1844. At the press of Moshe Yehoshua Tuviana. With an introduction by Rabbi Yisrael Bekhar Chaim of Belgrade. mostly in Ladino.
Flyleaves with 14 sides of signed poems & prayers in his holy hand, also ca. 20 marginal notations in his hand.
The Gaon Rabbi Avraham Chai Mussafia (Otzar HaRabbanim 1056), author of Tehillah L’David, a sage in Turkey and Jerusalem, son of Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak, av beit din of Ishpalatro. In addition to his Sefer Tehillah L’David (Livorno, 1667), some of his novellae were printed in his father’s work Chaim VaChessed.
Two important customs originating from him have been accepted in Jewish communities worldwide: one is the ‘Bat Mitzvah celebration, ‘ and the other is the recitation of the ‘Nishmat Kol Chai’ prayer, as a segulah.
Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim (Noam Vol. 7, p. 4) brings a responsum of Rabbi Eliezer Mosafi from a manuscript, "One who makes a feast on the day his daughter reaches the obligation of commandments, meaning when she is twelve years and one day old, it seems to me that this is a mitzvah feast just like when a boy reaches thirteen years and one day old. What is the difference? And this is a correct custom, and thus they do days of joy in the cities of France and other towns for both boys and girls. And the practical difference is that if one is invited to this feast, he is obligated to go."
In his commentary "Tehilla LeDavid" on Psalms (Livorno 1867), page 176b, chapter 19, he wrote: "A segula to be saved from trouble: One should accept upon himself that after being saved from the trouble he is in, he will say ‘Nishmat Kol Chai’ (a thanksgiving prayer) with gratitude and a musical voice, with clear speech and holy melody, in front of ten people. And through this, many have been saved, and it has been tested and proven. Thus it is written in the book ‘Kemach Solet’ in the name of our teacher Judah the Pious, of blessed memory."
