[Avodah] Machlokes in Mishnayos, why?

[Marty Bluke via Avodah]

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 8:58 PM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:

> On 03/09/17 09:51, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote:
>
>> 2. Why didn't the Beis Din Hagadol resolve the disputes between Hillel
>> and Shammai and their students and in fact all of the disputes in the
>> Mishna? Why did they let Machlokes fester? Their clearly was a Beis Din
>> Hagadol for most if not all of the period of the Tannaim.
>>
>
> They *did* resolve the BH/BS disputes.   Every time they voted BH won
> whatever was the subject of that vote, except the day BS had the majority
> and passed their 18 gezeros.

That does not sound like the Sanhedrin voted.  The Sanhedrin had a fixed
group of 71 members, it did not matter how many talmidim someone had. It
sounds like they had a vote of the Chachamim not the Sanhedrin.

> The question is why they didn't resolve everything else too.
>  Particularly the machlokes over smicha which continued throughout the
> period of the zugos.

Yes that is exactly the question. Why didn't they resolve all of the
Machlokes in the Mishnayos.

> Perhaps out of kavod for both the Nassi and the Av Bes Din none of the
> other 69 wanted to contradict either of them.

Wouldn't that violate the issur of lo tasuguru mipnei ish?

>
>
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> Zev Sero                May 2017, with its *nine* days of Chanukah,
> zev at sero.name           be a brilliant year for us all
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