Manuscript, year-round siddur, handwritten by R. Shimon Chaim Charosh. [Jerusalem?, ca. 1870s-1880s].

Semi-cursive Sephardic script (several sections in square script). Contains weekday, Shabbat and several festival prayers.

At the beginning of the manuscript are several pages written in another hand, with piyyutim (most in Ladino).

R. Shimon Chaim Charosh (d. 1897) was a Torah scholar in the Maghrebi community in Jerusalem. A scion of the Charosh family of Marrakesh, son of R. Avraham Charosh, the first emissary of the Maghrebi community in Jerusalem. R. Shimon Chaim served as a scribe of halachic documents in Jerusalem, and like his father he traveled as an emissary to North Africa and Gibraltar in 1882-1883. He also authored a book of homilies (see previous lot).

NLI Ms. 8=412 contains homilies by rabbis of the Charosh family, the ancestors of R. Shimon Chaim. This manuscript was described by Gershom Scholem, Kitvei Yad BeKabbalah, Jerusalem 1930, No. 151. At the beginning of this manuscript are inscriptions written by the rabbis of the family on the death of their respective fathers, concluding with one by R. Shimon Chaim on his father R. Avraham's passing in 1872.

[9], 113, 115-124 leaves (lacking leaf 114), and many blank leaves. 17.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Browning of many leaves, impairing legibility of text in some places. Tears and open tears, most from ink erosion, slightly affecting text. New binding, integrated with front of original binding with inscription: "Shimon Chaim Choresh".