Siddur Rabbi Yaakov Emden - The Copy of Rabbi Yerucham Fishel Perlow

Siddur Rabbi Yaakov Emden - The Copy of Rabbi Yerucham Fishel Perlow

Siddur Beit Ya'akov, Ashkenazi tradition, three parts – Siddur Kol-bo, with commentaries, halachot and halachic rulings, Tehillim and Ma'amadot, Passover Haggada and Tikun Leil Shavuot. By Rabbi Ya'akov Emden – the Ya'avetz. Warsaw, [1889]. Printed by Rabbi Yisrael Alafin [1881 is written on both title pages. On verso of the first title page is a censor authorization from 1889]. Many stamps of Rabbi Yerucham Fishel Perlow: "Juda perla - warschau", and a relief stamp"Juda fiscel perla – warschau".

Rabbi Yerucham Fishel Perlow of Warsaw (1846-1934), a renowned Torah scholar from Poland who in his later years immigrated to Jerusalem. At the age of 15 he went to study Torah from Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin in Lomza, he later studied in Volozhin from the Netziv and soon became his disciple. He later moved to Brisk where he studied from Rabbi Chaim HaLevi Soloveitchik. He had an enormous library in his house, one of the largest in Poland at the time. Known for his great work on Rabbi Sa'adya Gaon's Book of Mitzvot which he wrote for almost 40 years. It is told that for 14 years while writing the book he did not leave his house and did not see sunlight, his wife would bring him his meals through a narrow window and he would hear Kaddish and Kedusha through his house windows. Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld said about this work that 'one should know that it is not humanly possibly to write such a work without efforts of forty years and unending dedication'. He is known for his Hagahot HaGri"p which are printed in the margins of several books. When describing the style his novaelle were written Rabbi Yehuda Leib HaCohen Maimon wrote: "I saw him several times when he sat and wrote his novaelle, his hands were shaking and burning as he wrote one line after another, all in sanctity, with caution, clarity, certainty..." 

536 pages; 114, 195-216, 127-258 pages; 68 pages. Approximately 23 cm. Brittle, dry paper, fair condition, wear and tears mainly on the spine, detached leaves. Signs of having been extensively used [wax candle drippings on Seder Bedikat Chametz and on Hatlakat Ner Chanuka]. Not original binding. Moderate condition.