[Avodah] Gezeiros after Sanhedrin

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

> Just to nitpik - it is not only the Sanhedrin.

AIUI from Rambam's haqdama to MT, any community can make gzeiros.

To make a UNIVERSAL g'zeira would indeed require a Sanhedrin
EXCEPT that
Another mechanism would be acceptance. AIUI qitniyyos was accepted as
a g'zeira throughout Ashkenaz - albeit there was scattered opposition.

Thus "knesses yisroel" can ratify a local g'zeiro and make it more
widespread.

Several Post-Talmudic Gaonic G'zeiros are codified [even] by Rambam,
and some he deemed widespread.

Thus, since Qitniyos did not stem from a bona fide Sanhedrin, it is not
binding upon Sephardim. (Although Qitniyos may be binding absent any
g'zeira at all :-). See Beis Yosef.

KT
RRW
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