[Avodah] The takana of krias hatorah on Monday and Thursday

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:54:16AM +0300, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote:
: Todays daf (Bava Kama 82a) discusses the takanos of Ezra and one of the
: takanas mentioned is that of reading the Torah on Mondays and Thursdays.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 08:14:41AM +0300, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote:
: The Gemara states that Moshe made the original Takana of 3 pesukim and
: Ezra expanded it. So this Takana already existed at the time of Menashe
: that they would read the Torah on Mondays and Thursday's. In fact it
: existed in the midbar because Moshe made it.

Actually, see the MB 135:0 (intro to se'if 135). It is a machloqes as to
whether Mon, Thu and Shabbos Minchah were part of the original taqanah
or part of the addition.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha