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It is not just the Mihna. The issue replayed in the closing discussion of the masechta. What are we to do with historical account that has no halachic uploads? Here is one approach:
Rambam, introduction to Mishne Torah paragraph Udvarim hallalu b’dinim gezeros ve’takonos… “but all the things in the Bavli gemara are incumbent on all Israel to follow them, and we instruct (force) every city and city and every medinah to hold by these customs,all the customs which the sages of the gemara followed, and to decree their decrees and to follow their enactments.” (translation mine) The Rambam is telling us that we are creatures of the Bavli, and all the non Halachic text is the instructions for minhag and societal structure and culture. I am not aware of a gemara that gives as clear a program for shadchanus as we have it today. And the Mishne calls them joyous days, because the system apparently worked well. The trouble is how to recast this in our advanced stage of alienation from the lifestyle of then.