[Avodah] Hakafot on Shmini Atzeret

[Dov Bloom]

Johnathan Baker  summarised the sources brought down by Yaari relating to the practices of the ARI.

It is wothwhile to note that the sefer Hemdat HaYamim 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. See a discussion about the sefer in Chabad - if the Rebbi distrused it or held by it, in <http://www.haoros.com/download.asp?kovetzID=837&ext=doc>http://www.haoros.com/download.asp?kovetzID=837&ext=doc. 

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

At any rate, for anything where the Hemdat HaYamim 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.



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