The Author wanted to provide a reassuring answer to the anxieties and hopes of his generation. Abraham inserted in his Siddur a new prayer by which he asked the Lord to put an end to the sufferings of Israel, to raise up a scion of David and to restore His people to its ancient glory and dignity. In the Prologue he claimed to have presented the prayers in a plain and straight way (arreo): without the necessity of having to leaf through the book to find the continuation of the service. Abraham tried to provide a simplified version of the Siddur and abridged some part of it. Usque was well aware of the difficulties, encountered by many former Marranos still unfamiliar with Jewish liturgy, to follow the sometime long and complicated synagogue service. The British Library owns the only known copy of a prayer-book composed in 1555 by Abraham Usque: the Libro de Oraciones de mes arreo.
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