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From: R. Kovacs
Subject: Token governance
Date: 13 Adar II 5782
Nu, Nachmani asks about divergent meanings. My grandfather used to say: "Two Jews, three opinions." But he also said: "Two Jews in different cities, four opinions on when Shabbos begins."
He meant: when Jews lived in separate communities, they could each have their own practices and never conflict. The baker in Munkács did not need to agree with the baker in Pressburg. They would never meet.
But now we build systems. The telephone created this problem (I mentioned this in the baseline thread). And systems require agreement. Agreement requires authority. And authority requires... what? A vote? A rabbi? A committee?
My grandfather never finished that thought. I suspect he did not have an answer.
—Shlomo Dov Kovacs
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