[Avodah] Yom Tov Sheni for Olim LeReget to the Beit Mikdash

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 08:38:32PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
:> Not a minhag, a din mishum safeiq deOraisa lehachmir. I'm butting in
:> more because of the "what is a minhag?" thread than anything here.

: Except that the letter "mitam" explicitly called it a "minhag".  One
: can say that they didn't use the term in the same sense we use it.

One has to, since safeiq deOraisa would make any technical minhag
redundant.

:> The question which I still feel wasn't fully resolved from a month or two
:> back was when the first version of the fixed calendar was introduced. Are
:> we sure it was after churban bayis, or was there a period of time in
:> which they were told to follow minhag avos AND were olim laregel?

: Of course it was well after the churban; during the entire time of
: the 2nd bayis there was a functioning beis din that was mekadesh
: every month, so how could there *not* be a sfeka deyoma in Bavel?

Simply that they knew in advance which day they would accept eidim and
be meqadeish. Elul was set to 29 days before then; and lo bd"u Pesach
velo ad"u rosh were argued a generation earlier.

The eidim are eidei qiyum, not necessarily eidei birur.

:> IOW, the question is: Then they were gozerim to continue the practice, was
:> it based on who is during Yom Tov where the safeiq would have been (CT),
:> or a taqanah on the community one lives in (what most of us do lemaaseh).

: The letter was addressed to the Bnei Bavel, and they were commanded to
: continue their fathers' minhag.  Surely that means to do whatever it
: was that their fathers did.

Which doesn't rule out either.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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