[Avodah] Simchas Torah is Really a Holiday for Bavel and not EY

[Prof. Levine via Avodah]

At 11:18 AM 10/14/2015, Micha Berger wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 05:39:30PM -0400, Prof. Levine wrote:
>: I have posted a few pages from Avraham Yaari's book Toldos Chag
>: Simchas Torah at
>: http://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/yaari_st_bavel.pdf
>
>: From here I think it is clear that Simchas Torah is a Bavel holiday,
>: certainly in its origins.
>
>As is reading annually. So, any argument to reject ST would in favor
>of triennial+ Torah reading.

And indeed this has been my question all along.  Why did the Jews 
when they returned to EY adopt the "Golus" practice of reading the 
Torah yearly as was done in Bavel?  Why didn't they go back to the 
original practice of EY?

YL
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