[Avodah] Hakafos

[Jonathan Baker]

In response to private email, citing Tur Barekes (Amsterdam, 1645) as being
Hemdas Yamim (Venice 1731)'s source for hakafot on SA and ST:

I'm curious, given how Yaari presents the Shaar Hakavvanot and the Negid
uMetzaveh (1712): exactly what does Tur Bareket say about the timing?

Whoops!  Oy oy oy why didn't I see this before!  RCV in Shaar Hakavvanot
also notes that the Ari did hakafot at shacharit & mincha on ST, but that
he wasn't present to witness it except for arvit motzaei ST.  Negid uMetzaveh
also brings that doing it in the daytime is the minhag of the Jews of EY.

According to Yaari:
  1) RCV recorded in Shaar HaKavvanot that the Ari made 7 hakafot 
     on the night motza'ei ST (which in Tzfat was also SA), as well
     as shacharit & mincha.
  2) Communities in EY (Hevron and J'lem did just that.
  3) 1712: Negid Umetzaveh records "on the night of ST", leaving out
     "motza'ei", also saying that the custom in EY is to do them 
     shacharit & mincha.
  4) 1731: Hemdat Yamim copies Negid Umetzaveh, but is also 
     mechadesh doing hakafot on SA.  He also dismisses hakafot
     during the day as inconsequential (ein bchach clum), although
     noting that some communities make the daytime the ikkar.

Yaari quotes Tur Bareket, but only for a ta'am why we do seven.
Does Tur Bareket also say to do hakafot on SA?

Apparently the big deal for Yaari isn't hakafot stam, but hakafot at
night.  All his sources agree that from the Ari onwards, they did 
hakafot at shacharit & mincha.  The question was about aravit, and 
whether it was aravit motzaei ST (per RCV) or aravit leil ST (per the
Negid uMetzaveh).

Some communities only adopted one time or another; some Germans only
adopted the daytime hakafot; and I don't know anyone today who does
hakafot at mincha.  Does the Old Yishuv?

(posting to Avodah, so left out correspondent's name, unless he wants me
to put it in)

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