Mesorat%20hashas for Megillah 3:6

אנן הכי קאמרינן מכדי כולהו אנשי כנה"ג תקנינהו דאי ס"ד אנשי כנה"ג י"ד וט"ו תקון אתו רבנן ועקרי תקנתא דתקינו אנשי כנה"ג והתנן אין ב"ד יכול לבטל דברי ב"ד חבירו אא"כ גדול ממנו בחכמה ובמנין

What we mean [by our question] is this: Let us see now. All these dates were laid down by the Men of the Great Assembly. For if you should [deny this and affirm] that the Men of the Great Assembly laid down only the fourteenth and fifteenth, [is it possible that] the [later] Rabbis should have come and annulled a regulation made by the Men of the Great Assembly, Seeing that we have learnt, ‘One court cannot annul the ordinances of another unless it is superior to it in number and in wisdom’?

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