<div dir="ltr">Dear List,<br>Someone [I don't recall who] suggesteds that there WAS a Sanhedrin around [inEY] when the Bavli was completed. FWIW the Rambam in his hkqdamah flatly rejects this notion. [I amp osting today because I jsut reread it today]<br>
<br>[disclaimer: I don't buy every historical point in the Rambam's haqdamah, but this one is imho a slam dunk]<br><br>Rather the Rambam claims the authority of the Bavli is essentialy "nispashet" [this is truly akin to the Catholic Israel arguemnt in that Catholic Israel is a RATIFYING BODY not a legislatiing body]<br>
<br>Dislcaimer 2:<br> I would suggestt that nispashet included the possiblity that in different communites there were "hagahos" on inidivdual practices, just as with the Mishneh Torah and the the Shulchan Aruch. Or iow. when we say the Bavli was accepted everywhere it does not mean w/o any restirction or interpretation, just like the Mishnah itself was qualified by the Talmudic dial;etic, so was the Bavli itself so qualified. <br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>
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