Reference for Moed Katan 6:9

אמר ליה רבי זירא לר' אבהו ואמרי לה ריש לקיש לר' יוחנן רבן גמליאל ובית דינו היכי מצו מבטלי תקנתא דב"ש וב"ה והא תנן אין ב"ד יכול לבטל דברי בית דין חבירו אלא אם כן גדול ממנו בחכמה ובמנין

Was it not an [ancient] halachah of Moses from Sinai?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., a rule of immemorial practice, whose origin is unknown. Cf. our expression 'as old as the hills'. Cf. 'Ed. VIII, 7; Yad. Malachi No. 663 and W. Bacher's Tradition und Tradenten etc. (1914) p. 33ff.');">¹²</span> As [in fact] R'Assi reported R'Johanan to have said in the name of R'Nehuniah<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Also Hunya, Huna or Huna. Bacher ibid. p. 38 sect. 11.');">¹³</span> a man hailing from the valley of Beth Hauran,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A high plain S.E. of Damascus mentioned by Ezekiel, XLVII, 18, among the boundaries of Palestine (cf. R.H. 22b) . Herod established there a protectorate under Zamaris, a Babylonian Jew who offered military safety to the Babylonian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. V. Josephus, Antiquities XVII, 11, 1-2.');">¹⁴</span>

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