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<font size=3>At 01:13 AM 10/22/2006, Chaim G Steinmetz wrote:<br><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>From 266 he quotes Shaar
Hakavonos (SH) of R' Chaim Vital (RCV), that the<br>
minhog was to go around 7 times, and that this took place ST after<br>
Shacharis, Mincha and Motzei ST. Then he quotes R' Yaakov Tzemch (RYT)
in<br>
Nogid Umtzaveh, this minhog in the name of Ari, but with the important
difference, that RYT brings it as if hakofos took place the NIGHT of ST
and the morning. The same in Chemdas Hayomim (CH), where after he brings
similar to what RYT writes, he complains about those that don't do
hakofos the night of ST.<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>Yaari assumes that the
discrepancy between the Shaar Hakavonos and RYT and<br>
CH, is explained by the fact that RYT and CH used corrupted
manuscripts,<br>
while the "proper version" of the Shaar Hakavonos was only
printed much (almost 150) later, in 1852.<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>He then goes on the bring the
Shelah, who apparently does not mention<br>
hakofos at all, and several Sefardim from a hundred years later,<br>
that do mention it concerning the night of ST. Ad kan
devorov.</font></blockquote><br>
The ARI did nothing on Simchas Torah when he was in Sefas, because there
is no Simchas Torah (second day of Shmini Atzeres, eighth day of Yom Tov
in Chutz L'aretz) in EY. The dancing he did was on Isru Chag, not on
Shmini Atzeres. This is the whole point of the "mistake" in the
text which you have chosen to dismiss. <br><br>
I believe that the reason why the ARI did not dance on SA in EY is
because SA is, of course, D'Oraisa in EY. The heter of dancing on ST in
Chutz L'Aretz seems to me to come from the fact that ST is D'Rabbonon.
For those who hold that one may not dance on Shabbos and Yom Tov, dancing
on SA in EY should be problematic, to put it mildly. Dancing on ST in
Chutz L'Aretz seems to me to have been permitted for Kovod Hatorah and
because ST is D'Rabbonon. <br><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>Yitzchok Levine</font></body>
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