[Avodah] Of Elul, L'Dovid, and Golems

[Professor L. Levine via Avodah]

Please see the article at

http://ohr.edu/this_week/insights_into_halacha/4886


on this topic.


Note the postscript to the article which says


Postscript: There are a few communities, including many of Germanic origin, and the Chassidic communities of Sanz, Bobov, and Kamarna, however, who do not recite "L'Dovid" during Elul. See Shu"t Divrei Moshe (34), and sefer Minhagei Kamarna, (printed in the back of Shulchan HaTahor; Elul, 381), as well as Likutei Eliezer (pg. 5, footnotes 30 - 31). The Kamarna Rebbe of Yerushalayim, recently told this author that although in his shul "L'Dovid" is recited, as most of his congregation are not his Chassidim and nearly everyone's custom is to recite it, nevertheless, he personally does not. It is also known that the Vilna Gaon did not approve of this addition to davening (Maaseh Rav 53) as it possibly constitutes 'tircha d'tzibura'. The general Sefardi minhag as well is not to recite "L'Dovid" specially during Elul, but many nonetheless recite it all year long as an addition after Shacharis; see Rav Mordechai Eliyahu's Darchei Halacha glosses to the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (128, footnote 4).


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