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gezeirah

gezeirah is the alternative form of gezerah.

Meaning of gezerah

Noun

gezerah (plural gezerot or gezeroth)

  1. (Jewish) A preventive rabbinic enactment.
    • Jewish law as it now stands does not forbid these practices, but I believe they should be forbidden as a gezeirah, or rabbinic prohibition, because they are not in keeping with Jewish ethics and theology.2000, David Golinkin, “Genetic Engineering”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 3, page 70

Forms of gezeirah

pluralgezeirot
pluralgezeiroth

Questions about gezeirah

What is gezeirah the alternative form of?
Gezeirah is the alternative form of gezerah.

Words near gezeirah in the dictionary

  1. geyserites
  2. geyserlike
  3. geysers
  4. Geyserville
  5. geysery
  6. gezeirah
  7. gezeirot
  8. gezeiroth
  9. gezellig
  10. gezerah
  11. gezerot

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