<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Prof. Levine</b> <<a href="mailto:llevine@stevens.edu">llevine@stevens.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<font size="3">At 01:33 PM 09/30/2007, you wrote:<br><br>
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Over Yom Tov I saw two people using Rodelheim Siddurim. I pointed out to
them that their Siddurim has the "Leshaim Yichud" before
Sefiras Ha Omer." I do not believe that this was said in the
"good old days" in Germany. Indeed, to the best of my knowledge
the "real Ashkenaz Nusach" never had any Leshaim Yichud in it
anywhere.<br><br>
Apparently the versions of the Rodelheim Siddur printed after the war
have become Chassidized! >:-}<br><br>
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<font size="3">Yitzchok Levine</font></p></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all">The explanation is simple all AISI:<br>When the printers put in the Sefira they cut and pasted it from a version that had lesheim yichud<br><br>Background: <br>When I did shul calendars, I would use an OLD calendar as a template and then update it with the new dates. Almost invariably, I would leave ONE old piece of info that was in error
<br><br>Printers of Siddurim make simliar mistakes. When they notice the absence of Sefira, they grab it from another siddur. So in this case - the pristine Yekke tradition is contaminated by an innocent error devoid of any intention.
<br><br>If you see some old Roedelheim Siddurim or Machazorim they DID have the Sefira and bracha but they only supplied day one i.e. "yom echad". It was the emerging need to supply the entire chart for 49 days that prompted the change and inadvertently brought in the corrupting lesheim yichud.
<br><br>I cannot explain it for the bracha on the lulav. I would venture to guess that something similar did happen<br><br>Most of the Hineni's and Hinene Muchan's etc. in the Yekkisher siddurim are about kavvanah but are devoid of Kabbalistic references. [kavvanah good, Kabbalh Bad --smile--]
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