[Avodah] Ledovid in German Siddurim

[Richard Wolpoe]

On 9/30/07, Prof. Levine <llevine at stevens.edu> wrote:
>
>  At 01:33 PM 09/30/2007, you wrote:
>
>
> Over Yom Tov I saw two people using Rodelheim Siddurim. I pointed out to
> them that their Siddurim has the "Leshaim Yichud" before Sefiras Ha Omer." I
> do not believe that this was said in the "good old days" in Germany. Indeed,
> to the best of my knowledge the "real Ashkenaz Nusach" never had any Leshaim
> Yichud in it anywhere.
>
> Apparently the versions of the Rodelheim Siddur printed after the war have
> become Chassidized! >:-}
>
>  Yitzchok Levine
>

The explanation is simple all AISI:
When the printers put in the Sefira they cut and pasted it from a version
that had lesheim yichud

Background:
When I did shul calendars, I would use an OLD calendar as a template and
then update it with the new dates. Almost invariably, I would leave ONE old
piece of info that was in error

Printers of Siddurim make simliar mistakes. When they notice the absence of
Sefira, they grab it from another siddur. So in this case - the pristine
Yekke tradition is contaminated by an innocent error devoid of any
intention.

If you see some old Roedelheim Siddurim or Machazorim they DID have the
Sefira and  bracha but they only supplied day one i.e. "yom echad".  It was
the emerging need to supply the entire chart for 49 days that prompted the
change and inadvertently brought in the corrupting lesheim yichud.

I cannot explain it for the bracha on the lulav.  I would venture to guess
that something similar did happen

Most of the Hineni's and Hinene Muchan's etc. in the Yekkisher siddurim are
about kavvanah but are devoid of Kabbalistic references.  [kavvanah good,
Kabbalh Bad --smile--]

Gmar Tov
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