Grand Sanhedrin

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The Grand Sanhedrin was a Jewish high court convened in Europe by French Emperor Napoleon I to give legal sanction to the principles expressed by an assembly of Jewish notables in answer to the twelve questions submitted to it by the government.^[1] The name was chosen to imply that the Grand Sanhedrin had the authority of the original Sanhedrin that had been the main legislative and judicial body of the Jewish people in classical antiquity and late antiquity.