Mesorat%20hashas for Rosh Hashanah 4:1

יוֹם טוֹב שֶׁל רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה שֶׁחָל לִהְיוֹת בְּשַׁבָּת, בַּמִּקְדָּשׁ הָיוּ תוֹקְעִים, אֲבָל לֹא בַמְּדִינָה. מְשֶּׁחָרַב בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ, הִתְקִין רַבָּן יוֹחָנָן בֶּן זַכַּאי, שֶׁיְּהוּ תּוֹקְעִין בְּכָל מָקוֹם שֶׁיֶּשׁ בּוֹ בֵית דִּין. אָמַר רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר, לֹא הִתְקִין רַבָּן יוֹחָנָן בֶּן זַכַּאי אֶלָּא בְיַבְנֶה בִּלְבָד. אָמְרוּ לוֹ, אֶחָד יַבְנֶה וְאֶחָד כָּל מָקוֹם שֶׁיֶּשׁ בּוֹ בֵית דִּין:

If the festival of Rosh Hashanah fell out on Shabbath, in the mikdash (the Temple) they would blow the shofar, [for the blowing of the shofar is not (an interdicted Sabbath) labor. The rabbis decreed against it lest he come to carry the shofar four cubits in the public domain. But in the Temple they did not decree against it, there being no rabbinic shvuth ("resting") interdict in the Temple.], but not in the province [i.e., not in Jerusalem and not outside it. And Rambam says that all of Jerusalem is called "mikdash," and the rest of Eretz Yisrael "the province" (medinah).] When the Temple was destroyed, R. Yochanan b. Zakkai instituted that they blow wherever there is a beth-din, [even if they do not regularly preside there but just pass through.] R. Elazar said: R. Yochanan b. Zakkai instituted it only in Yavneh alone, [where the Great Sanhedrin presided in his days, and so, wherever the Great Sanhedrin was exiled, but not with a beth-din of twenty-three.] They countered: Both in Yavneh and in any place where there is a beth-din. [The difference between the first tanna and "They countered": The first tanna holds (that the shofar is blown on Shabbath) wherever there is a beth-din, even adventitiously; and "They countered" hold both in Yavneh and any other place where there is a regularly presiding beth-din, as in Yavneh, but not an adventitious one. The halachah is in accordance with "They countered."]

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