Birchas Ilanos

SEE Question HERE  about the nusach for birchas ilanos 

In the year 1725 the Rezah (R. Shlomo Zalmen Hena)   printed  the "Siddur
Bais Tefilah” with his Pirush “Sha’arei Tefillah” . The Siddur has a Haskamah
from the Chacham Zvi and other Gedolim.
The Rezah  was one of the greatest Ba’alei Dikduk. The Pri Megadim calls him
“Harav  Hamedakdek  Hagadol” (O. Ch. 56)
It is said that the Vilna Gaon acquired his knowledge in Dikduk from the
Seforim of the Rezah.
In his Siddur, the Rezah corrected and changed the Nusach wherever the Dikduk
was incorrect.
He also changed words from Leshon Chachamim (Klum) to Leshon Torah (Dovor)
Most of the changes in the Bal Hatanya’s Siddur are based on the Rezah’s  Siddur
“Bais Hatefilah” .

The Rezah was probably the first person to tamper with the Nusach Hatefilah. He
held that Dikduk overrides the Nusach established by the Anshei Knesses Hagedola.
The Yavetz (R. Yakov Emden ) criticized him strongly. He published a Sefer (Luach Eres)
to point out all the mistakes the Rezah made . The Yavetz in his Hakdama
writes “It is unbelievable what he(Rezah) did. He destroyed and broke fences, moved into
territory that doesn’t belong to him and there he destroyed and built without permission.
He made changes whenever he felt like it. He had the Haozoh (Chutzpa) to tamper
with the nusach of the Anshei Knesses Hagedola”.
The Yavetz also claimed that the Haskama from the Chacham Zvi was forged,
to make a great name for himself (Rezah) .
R. Dovid Yitzchaki claimed the other Haskamos were also forged.
R. Mordechai Duseldorff wrote a Kunteres (Kunteres Hahasogos) with 192 proofs
against the Rezah.  The Kunteres has a Haskama from the Noda B’yehuda .
It was none other but the Rezah who changed the Nusach of Birchas
Hailonos from “Shelo Chisar Bolomo KLUM to DOVOR (Loshon Torah)

The Shu”t  Minchas Yitzchok (10 – 16) criticizes the  Siddurim  printers for
changing the Nusach from Klum to Dovor

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