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We end our daf with a new Mishna: A zaken mamrei is one who rebels against the Great Sanhedrin. One sits at the entrance in the Temple wall, one at the entrance to the Chamber of the Great Sanhedrin, and one at the entrance to the Azarah. When a Sage opposed his city's beit din, they go to the Sanhedrin at the entrance in the Temple wall. They say, "this is how I expounded and this is how he expounded. This is how I learned and this is how they learned".
If the Sanhedrin can solve the question with a tradition that they know applying to this halacha, they do so. Otherwise they approach the Sanhedrin at the entrance to the Azarah. If they have no tradition, they all go to the Great Sanhedrin in the Chamber.
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