[Avodah] Who First Said it?

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Tue Mar 2 12:10:05 PST 2010


Danny Schoemann wrote:
> rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com asked:
>> Who was the first Poseiq to suggest or require reading BOTH Zecher and
>> Zeicher in Parshas Zachor?
> 
> Seems that it was the Chofetz Chaim in MB 685:7:(18) "Know that some
> say that you should read Zeicher Amolek and some say Zecher therfore
> you should read it twice."

It's certainly older than that.  How old I don't know, but L does it
(both in Ki Seitzei and in Beshalach), and they don't tend to paseken
from the MB.

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