[Avodah] lo plog

[Zev Sero]

AIUI "lo plug rabanan" doesn't mean that the rabanan *can't* make
distinctions, but that they don't have to make every distinction that
could conceivably be made.  When they make a takanah they can build
exceptions into it, if they think of them and think it appropriate to
exclude them, but at some point they can decide "OK, no more exceptions
to this rule, we're done", and one can't then come along and make ones
own exceptions.  But for this to apply there has to have been an actual
takanah, where they could have made (more) exceptions and chose not to.


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