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<div>The Chazon Ish in Treifot 5:3 famously states that the list was frozen . When you look at the actual language ( see: <a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14334&st=&pgnum=40&hilite="><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14334&st=&pgnum=40&hilite=</u></font></a>
)he seems to imply that it was fluid up till then based on the reality in each generation and that it "had to be " frozen then - I assume because the generations got weaker after that(see the Maharsha in Sanhedrin(?) on the 2000 years of torah vs. ymot hamashiach)</div>
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<div>Questions: If all the "gedolim" got together today, would they be able to change the list? Did each sanhedrin in the past make its own list? Why does ruach hakodesh play a part in when reality (vs.halacha) must be fixed ?<br>
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KT<br>
Joel Rich</div>
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