[Avodah] No HaKafos Even on Simchas Torah

[Micha Berger]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 09:47:53PM -0400, Prof. Levine wrote:
> HaKafos on Simchas Torah were not introduced until the latter part of  
> the 16th century by the ARI is Sefas. From there they first spread to  
> various parts of EY and then to Chutz L'Aretz.  However, there was  
> opposition to this "new innovation" in many places. One place was in  
> Frankfurt am Main.  From what I have posted at  
> http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/no_hakafas.pdf  HaKafos were 
> introduced in Frankfurt, then abolished, then introduced again, then 
> abolished, etc....

See R' Avi Feldblum's post at
<http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol10/v10n034.shtml#15>, RJJBaker's at
<http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol21/v21n002.shtml#01>, and the thread
RYL started in 2006 with a similar he'arah at
<http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/getindex.cgi?section=W#WHAT%20IS%20THE%20SOURCE%20FOR%20THE%20MINHAG%20OF%20CHASIDIM%20TO>
or <http://bit.ly/b279m3>, starting from v20n18, which until then was
about Chassidim having haqafos on Shemini Atzeres.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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