[Avodah] two fictional sects

[Zev Sero]

On 18/04/2012 2:45 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> (Abayei uses the words, when he canonized YT sheini from a minhag to a
> derabbanan. But that's arguably not the same thing, since it was maqom
> based.)

It's not Abaye's lashon; he's just quoting the letter they got from the
Sanhedrin in EY.  And the letter didn't use it as a halachic concept but
as a description of what it was that the Sanhedrin was ordering them to
do.  "Hachaziku minhag avoseichem biydeichem"; not *because* it's minhag
avoseichem, but because it might come in handy in the future if there's
ever a troubled time when it's difficult to keep the cheshbon.

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