Siddur Shaar Hashamayim, prayers including Selichos, Yotzros, Tehillim, Maamados, and Haggadah with commentary based on all methods of Torah study, and laws and customs in Ashkenazic rite by Rabbi Yeshaya Halevi Horowitz, the Shl”a Hakadosh.
Amsterdam, 1742. Second edition (with additions and amendments to original edition).
The psalm “Lamenatzeach b’neginos” appears in the shape of a menorah on Leaf 28b.
Originally 28, 568 leaves. 152 leaves (Sefer Tehillim with illustrated title page dated 1740). 60 leaves (Seder Maamados with title page).
Present are 3 partial copies that together contain most of the Siddur, Tehillim & Maamados.
1. Pages 12-146. Tefilat Shacrit. 15.7 Cm.
Various faults, unbound.
2. Pages 385-568; 1-152; 1-56. Includes Passover, Yotzrot, Passover Haggadah, Tehillim & Maamados. Seperate title pages for Tehillim & Maamados. At the end are 6 antique manuscript pages of prayers.
Various faults, unbound. 16.2 Cm.
3. Pages 1-60, Maamados.
Various faults, old binding. 15.9 Cm.
The Shl”a compiled this siddur shortly after reaching Jerusalem in 1622 and treasured it deeply. In fact, this siddur was the only one of his works that he specifically requested his children to publish.
“It occurred to me to compile this holy work so it could be printed, and when it is prevalent among the people, then I will have a portion and merit in all the prayers of Yisrael” (Shl”a’s Will).
Prayer from this siddur is a special segulah (and promise) that one’s prayer will be accepted and not go unfulfilled! According to what the author of Ba"ch wrote in his approbation to this siddur (printed in the first edition): "We have no doubt that this will certainly spread among the Jewish people; anyone who prays from it will have his prayers fulfilled." Rabbi Naftali Katz, author of Semichat Chachamim, writes in his approbation: "Seder HaTefillot Temidim K’Sidram U’Mussafim K’Hilchatan for Shabbatot and months and the high holidays from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, arranged and authored by Rabbi Yeshayah Segal, author of Shnei Luchot HaBrit. He dearly desired this siddur, and decreed that his descendants bring it to print to bring merit to the many so that they would pray from it with its intentions. He guarantees that if this service is recited before shome’a tefillah with all one’s strength with these intentions, his prayer will not go unanswered." This segulah is attributed to the author, none other than the Shla"h HaKadosh.
Since its publication, great tzaddikim, Chassidic masters and kabbalists have sought to pray regularly from this siddur in order to merit the Bach’s promise, that the prayers of one who davens from the Siddur HaShl”a will be answered.
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