Haggada Chukas HaPesach, Printing of Rabbi Yisrael Beck of Berditchev. Jerusalem, 1843
One of the earliest printings in Jerusalem!
Important Haggadah shel Pesach including Kabalistic tikunim for Pesach and the month of Nissan, edited by Rabbi Avraham Elnekave, one of the chachamim of Algiers. This was the second Haggadah ever to be printed in Eretz Yisrael. It is longer and larger than the first one printed. (The Haggada in front of us contains 84 pages while the first contains just 30.)
It was printed by the chassid Rabbi Yisrael Beck of Berditchev and Tzefas, who personally prepared the letters, asserting that he made every effort to print sefarim “with kedushah and taharah”.
Besides the Hagadda, the sefer contains: Tikunim for the first days of Nissan; Seder Bedikas and Biur Chametz; Parshas HaNesi’im; Maariv for the first night of Yom Tov; Shir HaShirim; Pirkei Avos, piyut in honor of Rashbi; tefillas for Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan and Seder Leil Shavuos. Rabbi Yosef Ha’ezovi’s work ‘Ka’aras Kesef’ is printed at the beginning.
Jerusalem, 1843. Printing Press of Rabbi Yisrael Beck.
Page Count: 84 leaves. At the end, there are three handwritten pages.
Size: 14 cm.
Condition: Good; restorations on the margins of several pages. Typical signs of use and stains; a little wear and tear. A tear on page 76 with damage to a very few letters. New leather binding.
Bibliography: Otzar HaHaggados 861; Shoshana HaLevi, Sifrei Yerushalayim HaRishonim #12.
