Me-faresh ḥaṭaʼim. מפרש חטאים.

Alternative title as is in item: ספר מפרש חטאים

The booklet contains the version of the supplication and confessional prayer for the 'Kol nidre' service of Yom Kippur ("תחינה ווידוי לליל כל נדרי") by Avraham ben Shabtai ha-Levi Horoṿits (approximately 1550–1615) as it was published and newly edited by Mosheh ben Yitsḥaḳ [Isserles] from Brest-Litovsk in Venice around 1650. Mosheh Isserles took the confessional prayer out of ספר ברית אברהם ('Sefer Berith Avraham', Cracow 1601), chapter 13, changed the text slightly, omitted the annotations, and added a preface. In MS Roth 51/6 this preface is missing.

State of text: Worn, stained and slightly mutilated thin paper.

Bibliographical note: Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no.51 (vi). National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 000019537 . The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 51,i–viii made on behalf of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s. The microfilm can now be downloaded in a digitised form from the NLI-webpage. The microfilm makes the eight different manuscripts defined as MS Roth 51,i–viii appear to be one codex, i.e., ḳovets, and subsequently the NLI catalogue treats them as such (see record-no 000185639). This means that the 12 single NLI records dedicated to MS Roth 51 are describing the textual units it contains and not the codicological ones. Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. 51 (vi).