[Avodah] Maharat

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

//On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 05:53:03PM -0500, Noam Stadlan wrote:On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 05:53:03PM -0500, Noam Stadlan wrote:
: The claim that there is a connection between Mosaic semicha and what we
: have now is historically completely wrong...

And therefore you'll pasqen differently than what you would conclude based
on the Rambam, Tosafos, the Mahariq and the Rama? How is a historical
study even procedurally relevant to how O does halakhah?

The connection need not be historical, it could be that one was set up
to imitate the other with no continuity between them.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha