[Avodah] Tu B'Shevat - Pri Eitz Hadar . yemach shmo on a Jew

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 01:11:07AM +0000, Allan Engel wrote:
: The saying of LeDovid H' Ori VeYishi apparently predates the Chemdas Yamim,
: according to R' SZ Leiman.

The association, yes. The minhag of saying it twice-a-day after Shacharis
and Minchah/Maariv, no.

We discussed this 2 years ago, in which R' Dov Kaiser wrote
<http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol26/v26n190.shtml#05>:
>  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
> 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.  

You replied that RSZL questioned the conclusion that CY was written
by a Sabbatean after all.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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