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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">If the three year cycle minhag ended in
the 12th century and haqafot started in the 16th, then the two
have nothing to do with each other.<br>
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Ben<br>
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On 11/18/2012 5:44 PM, Prof. Levine wrote:<br>
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<font size="3">At 08:22 AM 11/18/2012, R. Ben Waxman wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite=""><font size="3">The
three year cycle and haqafot
are two different issues.</font></blockquote>
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No they are not. Congregations that observed the 3 year cycle did
not have HaKafos, since there was no completion of the Torah to
celebrate on the second day of Shemini Atzeres in Chutz
l'aretz. <br>
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<blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite=""><font size="3">According
to
Professor Wikipedia
(<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://bit.ly/TGO7Ip"
eudora="autourl">http://bit.ly/TGO7Ip</a>
) the minhag of <br>
haqafot is relatively late, 16th century. So according to your
logic, we
<br>
should all simply drop it.</font><br>
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