[Avodah] Chazon Ish on treifot

[Rich, Joel]

The Chazon Ish in Treifot 5:3 famously states that the list was frozen . When you look at the actual language ( see: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14334&st=&pgnum=40&hilite= )he seems to imply that it was fluid up till then based on the reality in each generation and that it "had to be " frozen then  - I assume because the generations got weaker after that(see the Maharsha in Sanhedrin(?) on the 2000 years of torah vs. ymot hamashiach)


Questions: If all the "gedolim" got together today, would they be able to change the list?  Did each sanhedrin in the past make its own list? Why does ruach hakodesh play a part in when reality (vs.halacha) must be fixed ?

KT
Joel Rich

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