[Avodah] Upsheren

[Zev Sero]

On 6/01/2011 4:21 PM, Meir Shinnar wrote:

>> The holy Baal Shem Tov approved of it, and that should be enough to
>> dismiss any question about its propriety.

> Do you have a source?    My understanding is that upsheren was first
>  introduced when the talmide habesht made aliya

http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=39166&pgnum=227
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=39166&pgnum=228

Hebrew translation at:
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=39167&pgnum=146

-- 
Zev Sero                      The trouble with socialism is that you
zev at sero.name                 eventually run out of other people’s money
                                                      - Margaret Thatcher