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<font size=3>At 11:18 AM 10/14/2015, Micha Berger wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at
05:39:30PM -0400, Prof. Levine wrote:<br>
: I have posted a few pages from Avraham Yaari's book Toldos Chag<br>
: Simchas Torah at<br>
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<a href="http://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/yaari_st_bavel.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/yaari_st_bavel.pdf</a><br><br>
: From here I think it is clear that Simchas Torah is a Bavel
holiday,<br>
: certainly in its origins.<br><br>
As is reading annually. So, any argument to reject ST would in favor<br>
of triennial+ Torah reading.<br>
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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? <br><br>
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