[Avodah] Minhag Yisroel

[Zev Sero]

Richard Wolpoe wrote:

> Can we make the 5th of Iyyar a holiday like Purim NOWADAYS?

If we had a Sanhedrin, whose authority was accepted by klal yisrael,
then we could.  The fact that in practise we can't isn't because of
some defect in the process but because we haven't got a Sanhedrin,
and can't achieve enough unity to re-establish one. (Assuming that the
Rambam is right that it *can* be re-established without Eliyahu Hanavi;
of course, one unresolveable machloket among us is on that question
itself: whether the halacha is like the Rambam.)

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