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

[Lisa Liel via Avodah]

On 10/15/2015 10:29 AM, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> At 07:24 PM 10/14/2015, Simon Montagu wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
>> 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?
>> I think as a general rule the Jews expelled from
>> Spain retained their own minhag in the lands
>> where they were dispersed...
> To my way of thinking there is a difference. The practices that the Jews
> from Spain found in the countries they fled to were "relatively new. "

I think this was only the case in places that didn't have a strongly 
established local custom.  Jews who left Spain for Eastern Europe are 
Ashkenazim today.

Lisa

>
> The practices in EY presumably went back to at least the time of
> the second Bais Hamikdash and, to my way of thinking, have greater
> "validity." Furthermore, EY has special kedusha, and I would think
> that the practices of the Jews in EY also had special kedusha and hence
> should have been reinstated.
>
> YL
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