[Avodah] Laining difference between Israel and Chutz Laaretz.

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 09:20:35PM +0300, Eli Turkel via Avodah wrote:
: basically the answer has to do with the parshiot before shavuot.
: The major question is why does chul wait until matos-masei and not earlier
: For a detailed answer see
: http://rabbikaganoff.com/

With all due respect to RYK, what I said earlier is historically correct:
the currently leining system was designed by geonim for Bavel. So
chu"l leining for the 8th of Pesach instead of Acharei-Mos was correct
scheduling. It is Israel that got ahead.

So the major question is why does EY wait until Matos Mas'ei to split
a double parashah and fall back into sync with the design?

And that's easy -- because all the double parshios before then are
already split!

If you want to ask why the ge'onim have us splitting all the double
parshios, yes, that has to do with timing the tochachah to be 2 Shabbasos
before Shavuos. But that's not a why we didn't catch up to EY yet thing --
catching up was never a goal.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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