[Avodah] Stam yeinam of Giyur Candidates

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:02:06PM -0400, Rich, Joel wrote:
:> And often we need not be concerned with a 21st cent Jew grinding his own
:> medicine or tuning his piano on Shabbos. Gezeiros don't work that way.

: Is there a good write up available of what is the source of the rabbinic
: power to make gezeirot and that it takes a beit din greater in chochma
: and minyan (what that really means is debated) to override? If we take
: yeridat hadorot as built into the briah...

... vs halakhah kebasrai. A topic we return to often.

However, not nogai'ah here. We're talking about actual gezeiros made
by an actual beis din hagadol vs an era which doesn't have beis din of
any sort -- there is nothing to be gadol mimenu. If you want to apply a
shadow of the concept fo post-BD pesaqim, then one can compare earlier
rav to later rav, ask about what made the acharonim place the opinions of
rishonim on a pedestal, etc... But here, WRT the actual kelal, you need
a BEIS DIN hagadol mimenu bechokhmah uveminyan and that we certainly lack.

IOW, we live with headaches on Shabbos because the halachic system
is broken without a beis din hagadol. It's all part of the galus.
Yet another reason to daven, "Hashivah shofeteinu kevarishonah!"

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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