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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>From: "Prof. Levine via Avodah" <A
href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial>Why did the Jews <BR>when they returned to EY adopt the "Golus"
practice of reading the <BR>Torah yearly as was done in Bavel? Why didn't
they go back to the <BR>original practice of EY?<BR><BR>YL</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>They realized that a year was a more natural, organic unit of time for the
start and completion of anything than a three-year or three-and-a-half-year unit
of time, which does not correspond to anything in nature. </DIV>
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<DIV>They also realized that a lot (the majority?) of Jews in Bavel were not
coming back to E'Y and saw a unifying advantage in having the Jews of E'Y and
those of Bavel read the same parsha at the same time (with minor changes just a
few Shabbosim of the year). </DIV>
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<DIV>Also they realized that the hamon am who may not have had their own sifrei
Torah in their homes were losing the thread of the story when you started from
Bereshis one day and didn't finish until three years later. And people
were forgetting too much in between the start of one cycle and the start of the
next.</DIV>
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<DIV>Also they prophetically foresaw that an ArtScroll Chumash would have way
too many short choppy chapters if there were 162 parshios instead of
54. </DIV>
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PTSIZE="10"><B><BR>--Toby Katz<BR>t613k@aol.com</FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#ffffff
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