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Updated: 2021.01.03
All scholars, and even most Orthodox rabbis, acknowledge that the chain of sᵊmikh•âhꞋ from Mōsh•ëhꞋ at Har Sin•aiꞋ to the present era is non-continuous at a large number of lost links—whereas one missing link is sufficient to destroy the chain of succession. Today, despite a childish recitation of wishful rabbinic tradition, practically everyone—even most Orthodox rabbis—recognizes that the succession never survived the wake of 135 CE. Yet, the reality is that the chain of succession was broken almost from the start: at the death of Yᵊho•shuꞋa Bin-Nun!!! 
Despite the obvious and rabbinically acknowledged discontinuity and numerous inescapable missing links, delusionals ("believers") nevertheless persist in claiming to fill the entire nebulous void (no documented decipherable link) between the [Cessation of the Nᵊviy•imꞋ] and the [post-BCE 167 Hellenized ZūgꞋōt] with a fabricated proto-Συνέδριον of 120 undefined individuals: אַנְשֵׁי כְּנֶסֶת הַגְּדוֹלָה.
ha-Zūg•ōtꞋ; the "Complementary Pairs" who administered the Συνέδριον from B.C.E. 175 until Rab•ânꞋ Ga•mᵊl•i•eilꞋ Sr. wrested Pᵊrush•imꞋ control of the Beit Din hâ-Gâ•dōlꞋ for the first time, yoking both titles together (ca. 25 C.E.).
In B.C.E. 175, Seleucid Satrap An•tiꞋ•ŏkh•ŏs ŏ Ëp•i•phan•eisꞋ backed a Tzᵊdōq•imꞋ-implemented ouster of the last legitimate Ōs•inꞋ Kō•heinꞋ ha-Jâ•dōlꞋ, thereby Hellenizing the "Second Temple" and the Hellenist Tzᵊdōq•imꞋ "priests" (Hellenized kō•han•imꞋ).
By authority of Satrap An•tiꞋ•ŏkh•ŏs ŏ Ëp•i•phan•eisꞋ, the Tzᵊdōq•imꞋ were in complete control at the advent of the ZūgꞋōt. It is, therefore, certain that, from the inception of the ZūgꞋōt, the ruling Tzᵊdōq•imꞋ of the "Temple" were, likewise, predominantly represented in every one of the 5 ZūgꞋōt. It is well documented that the Tzᵊdōq•imꞋ maintained their dominance in the Συνέδριον, uninterrupted, from their inception in BCE 175 until Rab•ânꞋ Ga•mᵊl•i•eilꞋ Sr. first wrested Pᵊrush•iꞋ control c. 30 C.E.
This created the 3 great Min•imꞋ and "The Greatest Schism" in all of Jewish history:
the lingering extinction of the anti-Hellenist Kha•sid•imꞋ-Ōs•inꞋ,
the Hellenist Kōhanic "Temple" Kha•sid•imꞋ-Tzᵊdōq•imꞋ, and
the new anti-Hellenist (anti-assimilation) Pᵊrush•imꞋ.
The destruction of the "Temple" also caused "The one Law has become two laws" (Tosef., Ḥag. ii. 9; Sanh. 88b; Soṭah 47b) under the ZūgꞋōt.
the original formation of the anti-Hellenist Pᵊrush•imꞋ pitted against the Hellenist Kōhanic "Temple" Kha•sid•imꞋ-Tzᵊdōq•imꞋ in B.C.E. 175, the "Συνέδριον" was thenceforth officiated by "The Zūg•ōtꞋ", comprising a "Temple"-Kōhanic Tzᵊdōq•imꞋ Nâ•siꞋ (Senior) & Pᵊrush•imꞋ Av Beit Din (Junior) "Pair of Complements".
These Zūg•ōtꞋ officiated the Συνέδριον unchanged until Rab•ânꞋ Ga•mᵊl•i•eilꞋ ha-Za•qeinꞋ wrested Pᵊrush•iꞋ control sometime between c. 25 C.E. (spurred by his firebrand protégé RibꞋi Yᵊhō•shūꞋa) and his death c. 50 C.E. While the exact date is uncertain, Ta•lᵊmūdꞋ records that it was he who declared Beit Hi•leilꞋ more authoritative than Tzᵊdōq•imꞋ Sha•maiꞋ ha-Za•qeinꞋ.
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