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

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From: "Prof. Levine via Avodah" _avodah at lists.aishdas.org_ 
(mailto:avodah at lists.aishdas.org) 


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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They realized that a year was a more natural, organic unit of time for the  
start and completion of anything than a three-year or three-and-a-half-year 
unit  of time, which does not correspond to anything in nature.  
 
They also realized that a lot (the majority?) of Jews in Bavel were not  
coming back to E'Y and saw a unifying advantage in having the Jews of E'Y and  
those of Bavel read the same parsha at the same time (with minor changes 
just a  few Shabbosim of the year).  
 
Also they realized that the hamon am who may not have had their own sifrei  
Torah in their homes were losing the thread of the story when you started 
from  Bereshis one day and didn't finish until three years later.  And people 
 were forgetting too much in between the start of one cycle and the start 
of the  next.
 
Also they prophetically foresaw that an ArtScroll Chumash would have way  
too many short choppy chapters if there were 162 parshios instead of  54. 
 
 

--Toby Katz
t613k at aol.com
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