<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 8:58 PM, Zev Sero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zev@sero.name" target="_blank">zev@sero.name</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 03/09/17 09:51, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote:<br>
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2. Why didn't the Beis Din Hagadol resolve the disputes between Hillel and Shammai and their students and in fact all of the disputes in the Mishna? Why did they let Machlokes fester? Their clearly was a Beis Din Hagadol for most if not all of the period of the Tannaim.<br>
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They *did* resolve the BH/BS disputes. Every time they voted BH won whatever was the subject of that vote, except the day BS had the majority and passed their 18 gezeros. </blockquote><div>That does not sound like the Sanhedrin voted. The Sanhedrin had a fixed group of 71 members, it did not matter how many talmidim someone had. It sounds like they had a vote of the Chachamim not the Sanhedrin.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The question is why they didn't resolve everything else too. Particularly the machlokes over smicha which continued throughout the period of the zugos. </blockquote><div>Yes that is exactly the question. Why didn't they resolve all of the Machlokes in the Mishnayos. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Perhaps out of kavod for both the Nassi and the Av Bes Din none of the other 69 wanted to contradict either of them.</blockquote><div>Wouldn't that violate the issur of lo tasuguru mipnei ish? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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