Aseres HaDevarim.
Order of Prayers for Shavuos According to the Custom of Algeria.
Wahran, 1856
Order of Torah passages in Judeo-Arabic script that were read on the Festival of Shavuos in the Jewish communities of Wahran and Tlemcen in Algeria.
The text in Judea-Arabic dialect encompasses a translation of the portion of the Torah describing Matan Torah and Aseres Hadibros which is attributed to Rabbi Sa’adya Gaon, the Rasag. The sefer also features a beautiful, lengthy poem (piyut) on the Aseres Hadibros by the acclaimed Jewish poet Rabbi Elazar ben Eliezer.
A rare sefer from a small Hebrew printing press in Algeria. In this year, the printing press in the city of Wahran began operating, and only four sefarim were printed there, this sefer being either the first or second among them. The printing press ceased operation that very same year and did not reopen until around twenty years later, around the year 1878.
Wahran, 1856. Page count: 22 leaves.
Page size: 20 cm. The owner’s signature of Avraham Krasinti, scion of a prestigious Jewish family in Tlemcen, appears on the title page.
Condition: Newly bound; in good condition.
Provenance: William Gross Collection, Tel Aviv
