[Avodah] Tefillah Zakah (was: Revenge and Punishment)

[Arie Folger]

R'n TK wrote:
> Others may be  found in the Tefillah Zakah recited just before Yom
> Kippur.  This  tefilla was composed, according to ArtScroll, by R'
> Avraham Danzig, author  of Chayei Adam, so I will take him as an
> authority for what kinds of sins one  [need not] [may not]
> forgive, when someone has harmed you.

Eh, bim'hilath kevod torateikh and toratam, that is AFAIK demonstrably
wrong. R'Avraham Danzig copied Tefillah Zakah verbatim from Sefer
'Hemdat Yamim. However, do not blame Artscroll, who have wonderful
talmidei 'hakhamim doing great research. The problem is that since
'Hemdat Yamim includes a text by Nathan of Gaza, Shabtai Tzevi's
"prophet," therefore, 'Hemdat Yamim was taken to be Sabbatean.
Apparently scholars no longer belive that it is Sabbatean, but the
author was obviously sufficiently undiscriminate to question the
authority and trustworthiness of the entire work. Hence, later
publishers removed the fwe words where R' Avraham Danzig had stated
clearly where Tefillah Zakah was taken from.

About a year ago I checked a new edition of the 'Hayei Adam and saw
that the controversial phrase was back in the book, along with a
footnote explaining how some felt 'Hemdat Yamim was a problematic
source, and then the publisher waxed poetic on what a wonderful sefer
it really is.

Peirush Rashi: R' Avraham Danzig did not write that prayer, and some
or many people refrain from saying it, choosing a vidui from a more
worthy source, instead.

However, AFAIK, Tefillah Zakah contains nothing particulalry
objectionable, nor anything that is wrong, so for the purposes of teh
original thread, R'n TK appropriately excerpted from TZ.

Kol tuv,
-- 
Arie Folger,
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