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The Re-established
Jewish Sanhedrin
This website is about the
re-established
Jewish Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin is the name given in
the mishna to the council of seventy-one Jewish sages who
constituted
the supreme
court and legislative body in Judea
during the Roman
period. It continued to function for more than four hundred years after
the destruction of the Temple and there have been several orthodox
attempts to re-establish it since that time. The current attempt
to re-establish the Sanhedrin is generally referred to as the "nascent
Sanhedrin", or the "developing Sanhedrin".
Etymologically, Sanhedrin
is
a late
Hebrew
representation of the Greek word synedrion συνέδριον
meaning
"sitting together" as a legislative assembly or Senate.
It is interesting to note
that several aspects of the U.S. Senate, including the semi-circle
seating of the senators, were derived from the Jewish Sanhedrin by the
Founding Fathers of the U.S. Constitution. The Jewish Sanhedrin
is a
governmental body that resembles aspects of both the
U.S. Senate and
the
Supreme Court.
The make-up of the council
includes a President - Nasi, Chancellor - Av beis din,
and sixty-nine general members who
all sit in the form of a
semi-circle when in session. Decisions
are made by majority vote. The
constitution of seventy-one is to
preclude the possibility of a tie. Members of the Sanhedrin are
not elected, nor is their position permanent. Any scholar, at any
time, may gain a place on the legislature
by
proving a greater level of scholarship in Jewish Law than a current member of the legislature.
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Sanhedrin
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News
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This website was
established by "Volunteers for the Sanhedrin Initiative Online" in
consultation with the nascent Sanhedrin.
It is authorized to distribute information. However the material
presented here has not necessarily been
reviewed by the Sanhedrin and may or may not represent the official
position of the Sanhedrin
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