page_title: Baladi-rite prayer
section_title: First printing
hierarchical_section_title: Baladi-rite prayer / First printing
caption_attribution_description: English: A page scanned by me from an old Yemenite Siddur, handwritten in Yemen in the 1930's, showing the opening lines of Pirke Avot.
context_page_description: The Baladi-rite Prayer is the oldest known prayer-rite used by Yemenite Jews, transcribed in a tiklāl in Yemenite Jewish parlance.
  It contains the prayers used by Israel for the entire year, as well as the format prescribed for the various blessings recited. Until the 16th century, all of Yemen's Jewry made use of this one rite. Older Baladi-rite prayer books were traditionally compiled in the Babylonian supralinear punctuation, although today, all have transformed and strictly make use of the Tiberian vocalization. The text, however, follows the traditional Yemenite punctuation of Hebrew words.
context_section_description: The Baladi-rite prayer book or Tiklāl remained in manuscript form until 1894, when the first printed edition (editio princeps) was published in Jerusalem by the Yemenite Jewish community, which included the Etz Ḥayim commentary written by Rabbi Yiḥyah Salaḥ. Today, it is used primarily by the Baladi-rite congregations of Yemenite Jews in Israel and the Diaspora. Baladi is an Arabic word denoting "of local use" (i.e. Yemeni), as distinguished from the prayer-rite widely used in the north (i.e. Syria and the Land of Israel), which is called in Arabic شامي Shāmī "Levantine, Eastern".
caption: Section of the "Pirkei Avot" section of a Yemeni Siddur with Babylonian vocalization)
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