The Source for the Recitation of LeDovid
This post is a followup of an earlier post which discusses the origins of reciting le-dovid hashem ori from rosh hodesh Elul through Simchat Torah. In this post I show a few early sources for saying ledovid and somereasons why some did not say it. For Profesor Leiman’s lecture on thistopic see here. In my discussion of the various reasons given I deal with the various Balei Shem especially the two balei shem who share the same name, R. Eliyahu…
