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Like New, Mesorah 2004 Full Size Illustrated Deluxe Children Edition 9 x 12
Free Shipping and Returns, ISBN-13: 9781578194230
Binding: Hardcover / Pages: 136
Perek Shirah  The Song of the Universe Schottenstein Full Size Deluxe Edition
Nosson Scherman
Perek Shira (Hebrew פרק שירה, lit. “Chapter of Song”) is an ancient Jewish text. There are a number of versions extant, some associated with the Ashkenazic tradition, some with the Sephardic, and some with the Mizrahi Jews tradition.[1] It was first printed, with a commentary, in Moses ben Joseph de Trani’s Bet Elohim (1576), but it is mentioned as early as the 10th century.[2] It contains 85 sections, in each of which elements of creation, beginning with the celestial and ending with dogs, use biblical and rabbinic verses in order to sing God’s praises. Use of Perek Shira used to be prevalent in the daily liturgy and medieval philosopher Joseph Albo wrote that whoever recites Perek Shira is guaranteed a place in the World to Come