Responsa for Sanhedrin 14:15
רב כהנא אמר מהכא (שמות כג, א) מלא תשא לא תשיא
Itis written: <i>Neither shalt thou go up by steps</i> [i.e. force thy way]<i>upon My altar</i>; and this is followed by: <i>And these are thejudgments.</i> The same verse continues: <i>which thou shalt set before them.</i> It shouldhave stated: which thou shalt teach them. R. Jeremiah, or according to some,R. Hiyya b. Aha, said: This refers to the insignia of the judges [which theyhave to set before the public].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. passage below and Notes 1-4. ');"><sup>24</sup></span>
Shut min haShamayim
They responded: "Say to Wisdom, my sister are you!" (Proverbs 7:4) - "if something is as clear to you as the prohibition of your sister, only then speak it." (Sanhedrin 7b:2) And who can truly examine and calculate how much flavour was exuded from a spoon? Some time later they responded: "One was Abraham," (Ezekiel 33:24) "Incline after the majority." (Exodus 23:2) *i.e., the opinion of R. Abraham b. David is rejected.
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