[Avodah] who came first?

[Zev Sero]

On 15/09/2011 3:43 PM, Lisa Liel wrote:
> 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.

The Tana'im were semuchim, and so was Malachi.


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