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

Micha Berger via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Wed Oct 14 08:18:57 PDT 2015


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.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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