[Avodah] kerias sheni shel pesach

[reuven koss]

>> From: Zev Sero <zev at sero.name>
>> Subject: Re: [Avodah] kerias sheni shel pesach

>> reuven koss wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also the extraordinarily long reading of the first day of chol hamoed
>>>> Pesach, which is of course the reading for the second day of Pesach
>>>> in chu"l.  Why not cut it down a bit, to make it similar in length to
>>>> the other chol hamoed readings?
>>
>>>           Dina d'gemara
>>
>> The gemara doesn't say how long it needs to be.  Nor do I think the
>> gemara is paskening a din for EY; it's describing the minhag of Bavel,
>> where they kept two days of yomtov.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Zev Sero


 Rashi says that the beraisa was learnt in Eretz Yisroel were one day of y-t
 is kept. Length- that is the length of parshas tora.
 reuven