On 11/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich, Joel</b> <<a href="mailto:JRich@sibson.com">JRich@sibson.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>The Ramban there says that we deduce from this pasuk that a king<br>b'yisroel or sanhedrin gedola in the presence of all Israel who has the<br>authority to institute judgments, if they declare something cherem, one
<br>who violates this is guilty of death. And, according to the Chatam Sofer<br>in teshuva 208 of Orech Chaim, this is because the mechanism that gives<br>this authority, which then operated to give the authority to the later
<br>statement by Yehoshua that anybody who transgresses his command shall be<br>put to death (which can't be the primary source as it is from Nach) is<br>found in this pasuk as follows: All of Yisroel said to Yehoshua that
<br>whoever transgresses your command shall be put to death, thus creating a<br>cherem from the Torah which, based on this pasuk, makes the transgressor<br>liable from the Torah to be put to death.<br><br><br>Chana<br>_______________________________________________
<br></blockquote></div><br>So what is the status of Cherem de Rabbeinu Gershom? Is it a PRIVATE Cherem or a public Cherem albeit not as authoritative as it would have been in the presence of a Sanhedrin?<br><br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
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