[Avodah] Cancel Simchas Torah!

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 04:49:19AM -0400, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
: IMO ST has no place in EY.  The Torah in EY was originally read
: according to a 3 or 3.5 year cycle...

I thought it was a 3 yr cycle from Shavuos to the third Shavu'os after.

The 3 yr cycle is one of the examples cited to show the EY origins of
Ashkenaz, actually. So you could make a stronger argument that Ashkenazim
have less reason to observe Simchas Torah than does EY's more mixed
populace.

But the current system has been the norm for some 1200 years. And
celebrating a siyum doesn't really depend on the age of the custom for
timing the learning.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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