[Avodah] who came first?

[Lisa Liel]

On 9/15/2011 2:31 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:26:37PM -0700, Harvey Benton wrote:
>: since eliyahu is before the mishna (and even the novi who talks about
>: what he needs (or will do)
> : does he have to listen to the later authorities??

> Wouldn't he be a zaqein mamre (who was also always born before the pesaq
> in question) if he doesn't?

I'm pretty sure you can't have a zaqen mamre without a Sanhedrin,
or at the very least without smukhim. And given that he's the only
samukh alive, I suspect his paskening authority way outranks that of
any other authority.

Lisa