[Mesorah] Fwd (afolger at aishdas.org): [Avodah] ISO: Article on siddur grammarians of the 17th-18th centuries

[Mandel, Seth via Mesorah]

This article, although nothing it says is untrue, does not give a full picture.  And when it says "recent study," that is misleading.  All grammarians always knew that the modern printings of the Chabad Nusach (which is NOT the Nusach of the Ari) were from a siddur proofread by someone following Zalman Hanaus' rules.  As Zev Sero has pointed out, some of the older Chabad siddurim printed in Europe do NOT have these markings, and so it is an error to attribute them to "Chabad nusach."
Unfortunately, there are no articles widely available describing the machloqes that arose about Zalman Hanau.  R. Yaakov Emden was NOT the only one who opposed him.

Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel

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Solomon Hanau - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Hanau

Shlomo (Zalman) ben Yehuda Leib Katz was born in Hanau, Germany and lived in part in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Berlin and Hanover. At the age of 21 he composed his first dikduk work, "Binyan Shlomo". Solomon Hanau was fiercely criticized by Jacob Emden, though Emden's father, Tzvi Ashkenazi, authored an approval letter to Solomon Hanau for his textual work. Recent study suggests that Shneur Zalman of Liadi followed many of Solomon's variations when composing his Chabad Nusach of Jewish prayer (Nusach Ari).

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