[Avodah] 15 different fruits on Tu B'shvat

[Dov Bloom]

The Hemdat Yamim pulmus was mentioned in a post of mine on Avodah V20 Issue #25, responding to Jon Baker about Hakafot on Shmini Atzeret.

Please pardon my incorrect references to H HaY - it is Hemdat Yamim without the "Ha".

It is wothwhile to note that the sefer Hemdat [Ha]Yamim was accused by achronim such as RY Eibshitz as well as some modern scholars of being influenced by Shabbetaism. The Munkatcher Rebber also scorned the sefer. There was a discussion about the sefer in Chabad - if the Rebbi distrusted it or held by it, no longer online.

Someone named M. Fogel wrote a whole article a few years ago re-analysing the accusations against Hemdat Yamim in an article published in a book called "HaChalom VeShivro" all about the Shabbatean movement. 

At any rate, for anything where the Hemdat Yamim is a primary proof, best tread with care.

Dov 

>The author of Hemdas Yomim (part 3, Days of Sukkot, ch. 8) did not have a ms. of Shaar Hakavvanot, and relied on R' Jacob Tzemach.
>...

>In fact, the Chasidish minhag to make hakafot on leil Shmini Atzeret was a chiddush of the Hemdat Yamim (ibid., ch 7), to express unity with the Jews of EY who were making their hakafot that night.  It was picked up by R' Alexander Ziskind of Horodno (Yesod veShoresh HaAvodah 11:16).
>..... there was a conscious choice made by the author of Hemdat Yamim, and ratified by
>early Chasidim, to do extra hakafot on the night of Shmini Atzeret.