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that is, the law is according to the later scholars. This rule dates from the Geonic period. It laid down that until the time of Rabbis Abbaye and Rava (4th century) the Halakha was to be decided according to the views of the earlier scholars, but from that time onward, the halakhic opinions of
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This is displayed in “hundreds of instances" in the Talmud in which Amora’im are challenged by Tanna’itic sources with the term מיתיבי and the Amorai'm unable to “deflect the challenge”. An Amora called Rav is challenged by Tannai’tic sources “and is vindicated by the statement,
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The question of which prior rulings can and cannot be disputed has led to attempts to precisely define which rulings are within the Acharonim era. According to many rabbis the Shulkhan Arukh is from an Acharon. Some hold that Rabbi
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can be interpreted such that the Orthodox view does not constitute a contradiction, with an appeal to understand it within the greater context of Torah. While authority may go to the scholars of a later generation
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This clearly implies that the only reason they are able to get away with disagreeing is because they are Tannaim. There are “only a handful of possible exceptions that the
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Note: This list is incomplete and is only intended to provide a small selection from the broad list of prominent rabbinic figures of the Acharonic era.
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post-talmudic scholars would prevail over the contrary opinions of a previous generation. See Piskei Ha'Rosh, Bava Metzia 3:10, 4:21, Shabbat 23:1
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a particular era, the Talmud does not allow scholars of a later era to argue with scholars of an
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8a, and elsewhere). A similar case exists for Rav Chiya, a borderline Tanna in
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thus marks the transition from the era of Rishonim to that of Acharonim.
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is meaningful historically. According to the widely held view in
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has the halakhic status of a work of a Rishon, while his later
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era without support from other scholars of an earlier era.
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Amoraim
Savoraim
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Rishonim
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rabbis
poskim
Shulchan Aruch
Rishonim
Geonim
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Hasidic Judaism
Jewish emancipation
Haskalah
Zionism
Holocaust
State of Israel
Jewish exodus from the Muslim world
Orthodox Judaism
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