[Avodah] An-im Zemiros The Reason For My Question

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Is one permitted to recite An-im Zemiros on Shabbos or Yom Tov as a  majority 
of Ashkenazic
shuls do? Is one allowed to recite it at the end of  davening? Should one 
recite the concluding
section of "Lcho HaShem  HaGeduloh...." which is of later origin?
 
I do not understand your question. Why would you think these practices  
(which you admit are
done by "a majority of Ashkenazic shuls") would be  wrong? 
The reason I asked this question is, according to the commentary in  the 
Siddur Maharal
MiPrague. 
According to the Maharal (Nesivos Olom Nesiv  12) it is ossur after the 
Tefilloh, to speak in praise
of HaKodosh Boruch Hu,  more than nessecary. The Gemoro Megilloh 106b says in 
comment to
the posuk  "Mi yimalayl gevuros HaShem yashmiya kol tehiloso". 
[How ironic that this is  one of the pesukim which were added at the end of 
the Shir Hakovod]
Says  Rabboh Bar Chanoh Omar Rabi Yochonon, “One who speaks praise about the  
Holy
One Blessed Be He more than necessary, will be uprooted from the world.”  The 
Gemoro goes on
to quote from Iyov (37:20).  Yechezkel (65:20) etc..  
Rashi explains the reason that it is only ossur to speak praise of the  
Omnipresent in the form of a
brocho. It would seem it would be mutor  otherwise. 
The Maharal says he does see the chiluk between praise during a  brocho and 
not during a
brocho?  
Therefore the Paitonim who composed  this Piyut established this Piyut in the 
midst of the Tefilloh
and did not  establish at the end of the Tefilloh. Like the Tur in Orach 
Chayim (Simonim 68  and
112). 
The Maharal states those who recite the song known as Shir  HaYichud are 
committing an “Issur
Gomur.” The lay people started reciting  there but originally it was only 
recited on Yom Kippur. 
On Yom Kippur it is  not called praising the Omnipresent more than essence 
because we do
praise  G-d that way already because it is Yom Kippur. A person on Yom Kippur 
is already  trying to
elevate himself to the level of the Maloch. In the frame of mind it  is 
fitting to give praise and song
to Hakodosh Boruch Hu.  
But to  say everyday praise to HaKodosh Boruch Hu is not done with the 
approval of  the
Chachomim. Even on Yom Kippur if one cannot abolish the recital of Shir  
Hayichud which was
innovated by those who were not Baalei Toroh, it should be  recited 
preferably before Boruch
Sh’omar. 




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