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> On 5/6/2013 1:54 PM, Arie Folger wrote<br>
>> Pardon my ignorance, but where do you take this idea from, that lower batei din were not allowed to be medameh davar le-davar and be lomed davar mitoch davar?<br>
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<p dir="ltr">To which RnLL replied:<br>
> From the Rambam's description of the process at the beginning of Hilchot Mamrim. He doesn't say "if they were able to work it out, they'd tell them, and if not..." He says "If they knew." Which seems to indicate that they either knew the halakha pertaining to a particular issue, or they didn't.</p>
<p dir="ltr">My reply: nu, nu, nisht mukhrach.<br>
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