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Siddur Beit Rachel and Shaar Hallel Yah – With Prayers and Bakashot by Rabbi Naftali Katz, Author of Semichat Chachamim – Amsterdam, 1816. - Year-round Siddur according to the Ashkenazic and Polish rite, with the Book of Tehillim, and ”Beit Rachel VeSha'ar Hallel Yah”, including kabbalistic prayers, songs and confessions by Rabbi Naftali Katz, Rabbi of Frankfurt, author of Semichat Chachamim. Amsterdam: Yochanan Levi Rofeh and his son Benjamin, [1816]. The prayer book includes weekday, Shabbat and holiday prayers, Hoshanot poems, Yotzerot and Ma'aravot, order of Yom Kippur Katan, prayers from ”Sha'arei Tzion”, Tikkunei Shabbat, Selichot for Monday and Thursday and Monday and for fast days, Pirkei Avot (with commentary), and more. On the lower margins is printed a literal commentary (based on commentaries that appeared in prayer books printed in Zhovkva in the 1700s). The prayer and song collection ”Beit Rachel VeSha'ar Hallel Yah”, by Rabbi Naftali Katz, was first printed in 1741, and later printed separately, as well as appended several times to additional editions of prayer books, as in the present. Divisional title pages for ”Beit Rachel VeSha'ar Hallel Yah” (appearing at the beginning of the volume), and for the Book of Psalms. The holy sefer ”Beit Rachel” is part of a large composition of Kabbalistic songs, supplements and prayers, composed by the Rabbi Naftali Katz, author of ”Semichat Chachamim” (1650-1719), who would recite them at night when rising to lament the absence of the Divine Presence – to fulfill the decree from the Book of Lamentations: ”Arise, cry out in the night”. On the title page of ”Beit Rachel VeSha'ar Hallel Yah” are mentioned those who brought the first edition to print, Rabbi Shimshon Katz, grandson of the author of ”Semichat Chachamim”, and Rabbi Gavriel Segal, grandson of the Shelah. Three parts in one volume. Beit Rachel VeSha'ar Hallel Yah (bound at the beginning of the book): 15 leaves; Prayer book: [1], 256, 120 leaves; Psalms: 90, [2] leaves. 19.7 cm.