MW13, btw, I specified that R’ Gershom made a TAKANAH (takana=halacha and is not just an opinion), so I did not make light of it as you implied. Other Rabbanim state their personal, no-halachic opinions (as with the nail polish issue), and some of us seem to take those opinions as Torah m’Sinai, when it is not. R’ Gershom obviously had the authority to issue such a takanah, because it has gone on for a long, long time, with no one overturning it (though I had heard somewhere that the time limit for the takanah’s being in force has expired).
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