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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: #444444"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><< Current cademic consensus agrees that it reflects a Sabbatean slant... Chemdas haYamim includes a text which is the origin of the Tu biShvat seder, called (the text, not the seder) "Peri Eitz Hadar". It is also the source for saying LeDavid twice a day this time a year.>></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: #444444"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>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 <STRONG><A href="http://tinyurl.com/njgzmd">http://tinyurl.com/njgzmd</A></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: #444444"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>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. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: #444444"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>You may, however, be right that the spread of this custom is due to Chemdas Yomim, even if this is not the original source for it. Dr Leiman didn't discuss this. Certainly, a number of Chassidic Rebbes thought that the custom originated with Chemdas Yomim, which is why they didn't say it, eg Sanz, Ropshitz. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: #444444"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>By the way, Dr Leiman has some fascinating publications available online at his new website at <A href="http://www.leimanlibrary.com/">http://www.leimanlibrary.com/</A>. He has a number of essays on various aspects of the controversy surrounding R. Y. Eibeschuetz, which seems to be a specialty of his.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: #444444"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Kol tuv</FONT></SPAN></P>
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