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we don't have the rabbinic authority As a former LDS/Mormon (now effectively humanist/atheist), this concept of authority is pretty interesting. One of our co
by nitrogen 6y ago
we don't have the rabbinic authority
As a former LDS/Mormon (now effectively humanist/atheist), this concept of authority is pretty interesting. One of our core lessons when I was a missionary was that God's authority was lost from the Earth, and had to be restored by a new line of prophets. Some of my fellow missionaries enjoyed discussing this with messianic Jews in the area, sharing interpretations back and forth.
So in Judaism, are there tiers of rulemaking authority? Could a rabbi override a previous rabbi, but not a prophet?
- TchoBeer 6y agoThe important bit is that an individual rabbi cannot overturn anything; the power comes from a legislative entity called "The Sanhedrin". However, in order to be part of the sanhedrin you need to be ordained by another member of the sanhedrin and at some point (unknown exactly when, possibly around the year 400) this lineage was lost. The idea of overturning a prophet doesn't really matter though, because as far as I know we don't get laws from the prophets (except Moses obviously).