[Avodah] What is the source for the minhag of Chasidim to have hakafos on Shmini Atzeres night?

[Ken Bloom]

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 01:02, Marty Bluke wrote:
> Subject: What is the source for the minhag of Chasidim to have
> hakafos on Shmini Atzeres night? 
>
> The one source that I found is in the siddur of the Baal Hatanya
> where he quotes it as a minhag vasikin. Anyone know of any other
> sources/reasons?

See Ben Ish Chai Parshat Vetzot HaBeracha for the first year, section 
17. He states this practice as the halacha without giving any earlier 
source or reason. He also mentions and endorses the minhag of the Ari 
Z"L to do hakafot leil isru chag as well.

See also Kaf HaHayyim (of R. Hayyim Sofer) 699:33. This is probably also 
covered in Chazon Ovadia (ROY) and Torat HaMoadim (his son, RDY) with 
extensive footnotes, but I do not have these sources to check.

--Ken Bloom

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Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
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