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gezeroth

gezeroth is the plural 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

Questions about gezeroth

What is gezeroth the plural of?
Gezeroth is the plural of gezerah.

Words near gezeroth in the dictionary

  1. gezeirot
  2. gezeiroth
  3. gezellig
  4. gezerah
  5. gezerot
  6. gezeroth
  7. Gezira
  8. gezumph
  9. gezumphed
  10. gezumphing
  11. gezumphs

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