Physical Description:

Volume 2 of 2. [1], 52, 186 ff., octavo, 174:105 mm., light age and damp staining, nuce margins. A very good copy bound in contemporary leather boards, rubbed.

Detailed Description:   

Following the rites of German [Frankfurt] Jews with a Judeo-German translation.The selihot are set in square vocalized type, the translation in Judeo-German in Waberish fonts.

Selihot are a special order of service consisting of non-statutory additional prayers which are recited on all fast days, on occasions of special intercession and during the Penitential season which begins before Rosh HaShanah and concludes with the Day of Atonement. The word selihah means forgiveness, and in the singular is used to indicate a piyyut whose subject is a plea for forgiveness for sins.

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