[Avodah] l'Dovid Hashem Ori

[Allan Engel]

Rabbi Leiman also says in that interesting shiur that he doesn't think that
the author of the Chemdas Yomim was a Sabbatean.
ADE


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Dov Kaiser <dov_kay at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>  R. Micha wrote:
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> << Current cademic consensus agrees that it reflects a Sabbatean slant...
> Chemdas haYamim includes a text which is the origin of the Tu biShvat seder,
> called (the text, not the seder) "Peri Eitz Hadar". It is also the source
> for saying LeDavid twice a day this time a year.>>
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> The last sentence is incorrect, at least insofar as there are earlier
> sources for saying L'Dovid in Elul than Chemdas Yomim - listen to R. Shnayer
> Leiman's recent shiur at *http://tinyurl.com/njgzmd*
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> where he notes that a non-Sabbatean kabbalistic sefer published at the
> beginning of the 1700s, before the first publication of Chemdas Yomim,
> already advised saying l'Dovid in Elul.
>
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