Siddur. Yiddish & Hebrew. Derekh Yesharah.

Notes by Chaim Meiselman: This work has been controvertially classified as crypto-Sabbatian in influence. For more information, see R. Jacob Emden’s ’Torat ha-Kena’ot’ (Amsterdam, n.p., 1755), l.16a-b; see also Hayyim Lieberman, Ohel Rahel (New York, 1980), vol. II, p. 209-210 (yiddish) and the reprint in English in ibid., vol. III, p. 346-348. Added t.p. title: Seder tefilah mi-kol ha-shanah ke-minhag Ashkenazim shel mo. ha-r. Mikhel Epshṭain be-amsterdam. Artistic scheme of architechture with nature covers the page; at the top the ark is crowned by square tablets, reading Psalms 69:14, ’and my prayer, to You, God’. In the foreground, the printers device is imposed through flora. Added t.p. title: Seder Tehilim. Added t.p. title: Seydr tkhines : [taytshe tkhines]. Proops printer’s marks throughout; the finger-structure of the hands of Priests during the Priestly Blessing. Full printer’s device and advertisement at the last page of the Ma’amadot le-Shabbat, facing the additional title page. Mini printer’s device at the end of the table-of-contents Haskamot of Aryeh-Lob Lowenstamm of Amsterdam, dated Friday 7 Nisan 1748; Jacob Joshua Falk of Frankfurt, dated Friday 7 Adar 1744 (warning against plagiarists, almost devoid of praise for the author or the work); finally, Barukh Kahana Rapaport of Fürth, dated Friday, seder Bamidbar, 1744.