<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Rabbi Leiman also says in that interesting shiur that he doesn't think that the author of the Chemdas Yomim was a Sabbatean.<div><br></div><div>ADE</div>
</span></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Dov Kaiser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dov_kay@hotmail.co.uk">dov_kay@hotmail.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p 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 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" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/njgzmd</a></strong></font></span></p>
<p 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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