Specific Edicts and Institutions
LinksSpecific Takkanot [as opposed to gezeirot] and their Purposes
Edicts to prevent a woman from being dealt with as though she were an ownerless object: Yevamot 112b
Edicts preventing creation of Leaven on Pesach: Pesachim 40b
Suspension of the Sunday fasts of the National Representatives on the Offerings, to prevent association with Christian custom: Taanit 27b
Enactments preventing harm to sanctified property: Temurah 23a
A rabbinic enactment forcing a butcher to slaughter an animal for any purchaser, even if the purchaser cannot afford to buy all of the meat, in order to ensure that there would be meat for people for the holidays. To aid the butchers, the sages ruled that the purchaser would acquire his meat by mere transfer of money, so that if something were to happen to the animal, the purchaser would lose his investment. Alternatively, the butcher gives the meat to someone else to claim on behalf of the purchaser: Eruvin 81b
An Enactment validating transfer of funds, without moving the actual acquired item, as a means of acquiring one's share in a meal merging properties: Eruvin 81a-b
7 Takkanot Recorded by R' Shimon
Libations for a Gentile's offering, if the Gentile didn't send any: Menachot 51b
Libations for a Convert's offering, if he didn't provide any before dying: Menachot 51b
Trespass in using the ashes of a Red Heifer, or the Heifer itself, for one's personal benefit: Menachot 51b-52a
Takkanot of Ezra
