<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Zev Sero</b> <<a href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Richard Wolpoe wrote:<br><br>> Can we make the 5th of Iyyar a holiday like Purim NOWADAYS?<br><br>If we had a Sanhedrin, whose authority was accepted by klal yisrael,<br>then we could. The fact that in practise we can't isn't because of
<br>some defect in the process but because we haven't got a Sanhedrin,<br>and can't achieve enough unity to re-establish one. (Assuming that the<br>Rambam is right that it *can* be re-established without Eliyahu Hanavi;
<br>of course, one unresolveable machloket among us is on that question<br>itself: whether the halacha is like the Rambam.)<br><br>--<br>Zev Sero <br></blockquote></div><br>Are you saying that re: Holidays we cannot operate as a Sanhedrin but re: other mattes we can?
<br><br>Meanwhile in the absence of a Sanhedrin by what authority did: <br><ol><li>Minhag Yisroel morph ma'riv from Reshus to Hova?</li><li>Talmud Bavli acquire Halachic authority?</li><li>Zohar acquire legitimacy?</li>
<li>Shulchan Aruch acqire recognition? <br></li><li>New Brachos emerge? <br></li><li>Polygamy get banned?</li><li>Mechiras Hametz emerge?</li><li>Aveilus during Sefira become instituted?<br></li></ol><br><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
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