<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Prof. Levine via Avodah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think as a general rule the Jews expelled from Spain retained their own minhag in the lands where they were dispersed rather than adopting the local practice, whether in North Africa, Italy, the Balkans or wherever. If this was the case in places where there was already a community with a continuous minhag of its own, then all the more so in EY where (AFAIK) the triennial cycle and other old EY minhagim were no longer current in the 15th century.</div></div></div></div>