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*Rabbinic rulings designed to safeguard traditional practice. According to the *Mishnah, one of the three guiding precepts of the men of the *Great Synagogue was to make a fence around the law. Thus they produced regulations that were more stringent than the original commandments to ensure that the original commandments were fully kept.
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