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Sanehdrin is the place to have discussions not the place to count opinions
Pirkei Avos, and the Mishnah itself, can be read as a philosophy book, where philosophy means learning from a position of not-knowing rather than repeating what we assume we already know. True learning, whether in Gemara, Chumash, or the beis medrash, is dialectic: multiple pshatim signal that the question is still open, every shita must justify itself with reasons, and the first middah of wisdom is being modeh al ha'emes. The Sanhedrin was meant to be a deliberative yeshiva rather than a vote-counting body, so needing a majority already signals failure, "acharei rabim" warns against…
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