Selichot Shirot VeTushbachot, booklet of Selichot and other prayers by R. Avraham Auerbach of Coesfeld. Amsterdam: Yosef Athias, [1677].
Order of Selichot authored by R. Avraham Auerbach of Coesfeld, Rabbi of Münster, commemorating his miraculous salvation from slander to the authorities.
At beginning of book, approbations of rabbis of Amsterdam and Poznań.
On margins, kabbalistic commentary by author.
The author, R. Avraham son of Yitzchak Auerbach, was a seventeenth-century liturgical poet, rabbi in Coesfeld, Münster. Slandered to Prince-bishop Christoph Bernhard by a friend, R. Avraham's property was to be confiscated and he was to be banished from the realm.
After fleeing to Amsterdam, R. Avraham returned to prove his innocence. After five weeks of imprisonment, the plot was bared for all to see, and R. Avraham was set free, receiving his property and his rabbinic position again. As a result, R. Avraham enacted a yearly day of fasting and prayer for his community on 23rd Shevat, to which end the present booklet was printed.
Ownership inscription on title page.
20 leaves. 22.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dark stains. Wear. Small creases and tears to margins. Original parchment binding, with stains and defects (early inscription on binding in initials).
Ginzei Yisrael (Mehlman collection), no. 542.
Rare.
