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<font size=3>At 05:36 AM 9/5/2008, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">From: T613K@aol.com<br>
From: Dov Kay <dov_kay@hotmail.co.uk><br>
>>I stopped saying l'Dovid when I was alerted to the
Sabbatean origins of <br>
the custom to say it at this time of year. <<<br>
>>>>><br>
Just because one person finds some indications that the custom may
have been <br>
of Sabbatean origin doesn't mean that he's right, or that you
should stop a <br>
custom that by now is so widespread in Klal Yisrael. An
individual should <br>
not set himself up as a higher authority or bigger tzaddik than
everybody else, <br>
unless he hears that some of the biggest gedolim and poskim stopped
saying <br>
l'Dovid Hashem Ori for that reason, or he really is a big
posek himself, or <br>
has been told to do so by his own posek or rav.
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<font size=3>This is quite true. If the shul or Kehilah to which you
belong says it, then you should also, if not , then don't. I follow
minhag Tzanz, and so I don't say it. But if I am in another shul where it
is the custom to say it and I am the baal tephilah, then I do also so as
not to violate the minhag hamokom. If you have no minhag, then do what it
says in Shulchan Aruch.</font></body>
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