<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/24/07, <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>> Are you saying that re: Holidays we cannot operate as a Sanhedrin but<br>> re: other mattes we can?<br><br>No.<br><br><br>> Meanwhile in the absence of a Sanhedrin by what authority did:
<br>><br>> 1. Minhag Yisroel morph ma'riv from Reshus to Hova?<br><br>It's a neder. "Kiblu aleihem".</blockquote><div><br>I didn't make the neder. how can a neder over-turn the Talmud? Can I be noder against the Halacha?
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> 2. Talmud Bavli acquire Halachic authority?<br><br>As the Rambam says in his hakdama, Kol Yisrael accepted it as their
<br>authority, just as one can accept ones own posek. Asei lecha rav.</blockquote><div><br>So what? most jews drive on Shabbos waht does THAT prove. Anbd who is tthe Rambam to ictate Halachah! we follow him LESS than we do the Shulchan Aruch?
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> 3. Zohar acquire legitimacy?<br><br>Why would it need to "acquire" it? It is what it is, and carries
<br>its own legitimacy. What would be a Sanhedrin's role here - to give<br>it some kind of "haskama"?</blockquote><div><br>So it has zero halachic significance then? We certainly do not acrod Halachic signifcance to Aggadic passages in Talmud [se Rambam] so why Zohar? it's jsut another book - or is it more? And if is more why? And why not put on TEfilin on Hulo Shel Moed base dupon Zohar. Ois this based upno neder?
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> 4. Shulchan Aruch acqire recognition?<br><br>As what? It's a sefer of halacha, like any other of its period
<br>(between the rishonim and the acharonim). It's a pretty good one,<br>especially with the Rema's additions, so it became popular, then<br>many people wrote commentaries on it so it became even more popular.<br>
But in many cases we don't pasken like it (for various values of "we").</blockquote><div><br>So the Shulchan Aruch is NOT the book of Halachah. I can show you dozens of books taht state it IS the book of Halachah. {
e.g. See heshy Zelcers Mihna companion on Niddah for example] Are they all mistaken?<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> 5. New Brachos emerge?<br><br>Post-Talmudic ones? Good question, and that's why many don't say<br>them with shem umalchut.</blockquote><div><br>Why does it mater post Talmud or Pre-Talmud. Your criteria is Sanhedrin not Talmud
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> 6. Polygamy get banned?<br><br>Originally a cherem accepted by particular communities, and continued
<br>as a minhag. It's only binding on those communities that accepted it.</blockquote><div><br>Why should a community bind me? is a community a Sanhedrin? Can acommunioty BIND me to do 5th of Iyyar as a day of Yom Tov ceasing from Melacha? If not why not? If it can ban me from a2nd wife, why can't a community ban melacha?
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> 7. Mechiras Hametz emerge?<br><br>What's the problem with it? Why would you need a Sanhedrin for it?
<br>It doesn't involve any change in halacha at all. I guess I just<br>don't understand the question.</blockquote><div><br>I suggest you research the matter further as to how we seel hametz an dhow the Talmud construes such a sale wand why the GRA objected to OUR Sale as it exists now.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> 8. Aveilus during Sefira become instituted?<br><br>Minhag. Which is why there's so much variation in the details,
<br>including on which days it applies.</blockquote><div><br>So how does Minahg have authority? And how does lag BA'omer get exmpted it is not in Talmud AFAIK . At any rate it has not been rule dupno by a Sanhdrin. But if Minahg can establish Aveilus during sefira why not a holiday on 5 iyyar?
<br>Mah nafshach! <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--<br>Zev Sero Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's
<br><a href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</a> interpretation of the Constitution.<br> - Clarence Thomas<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>
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