[Avodah] Psak source wanted

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Tue Oct 24 06:38:55 PDT 2017


On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 08:00:51AM +0000, Motti Yarchinai via Avodah wrote:
: It is similar to what the Rambam wrote in Hilchot Kiddush Hachodesh,
: saying that in all calendric matters, we follow the lead of the chachmei
: eretz yisrael, and even though the anshei hagolah know the calculations
: used by them, it is not on our own calculations that we rely, we only
: use those calculations because we know that they are the same as the
: calculations used by the chachmei eretz yisrael...

: Another posek (possibly the Tifferet Yisrael in Shvilei Harakia, but
: I'm not sure of that), writes something similar...

Did you ever find a source? Google, Bar Ilan and I didn't turn anything
up.

In practice, we follow the calculations of R' Saaadia Gaon, who was in
Aleppo at the time, and not R Aaron Ben-Meir in Y-m ih"q. The big debate
of 922 was the topic of an article by RYGB and RAZZ reposted here
<http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol05/v05n038.shtml#08>.

The Rambam (Qiddush haChodesh 1:8) limits the authority to someone in EY
("ki miTzion teitzei Sorah...") or if the one clearly most able to do
it received semichah in EY, he can continue setting the months and ibur
shanos in chu"l -- until someone of comparable stature arises in EY.

This seems taylor-made for R Saadia Gaon, who went to yeshiva in Teveriah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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