sieg@bocar.UUCP (B A Siegel) (04/29/85)
I was very intrigued to find out that parshas hashvua is temporarily different between the diaspora and the land of Isreal. (Since the 8'th day of pesach was on a shabbos, we read the appropriate pesach torah reading. However, since pesach is only 7 days in Isreal, it was a "normal" shabbos reading of shemini) I'm told we will reconcile at parshas behar-bechukosai since in Isreal they will be separated. Does anyone know who set up this order? Is this part of Hillel's original calendar setup? Also why not separate tazria-mezorah or achare-kedoshim rather than behar-bechukosai? What criteria are used? Why isn't uniformity more important than relevance of parsheos? Barry Siegel
naiman@pegasus.UUCP (Ephrayim J. Naiman) (05/13/85)
<I brake for tailgaters> > I was very intrigued to find out that parshas hashvua is temporarily > different between the diaspora and the land of Isreal. (Since the 8'th > day of pesach was on a shabbos, we read the appropriate pesach torah > reading. However, since pesach is only 7 days in Isreal, it was a "normal" > shabbos reading of shemini) I'm told we will reconcile at parshas > behar-bechukosai since in Isreal they will be separated. > > Does anyone know who set up this order? > Is this part of Hillel's original calendar setup? > Also why not separate tazria-mezorah or achare-kedoshim rather than > behar-bechukosai? > What criteria are used? > Why isn't uniformity more important than relevance of parsheos? > > Barry Siegel Maybe because Tazria-Mezorah and Acharei-Kedoshim have common/linked subjects and the Rabbis wanted to keep them together and preferred separating parshiot that didn't have things in common. The link in Tazria-Mezorah is the Leper laws. The link in Acharei-Kedoshim could possibly be something I heard from a Rabbi in Scranton (where I was last week for Shabbos). He said that Kedoshim discusses staying holy in particular after Acharei-Mos, which discusses forbidden relationships which make you unholy. -- ==> Ephrayim J. Naiman @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6259 Paths: [ihnp4, allegra, mtuxo, maxvax, cbosgd, lzmi, ...]!pegasus!naiman