hekesh
hekesh noun: application of a stated law to an unstated but analogous case.
Noun
hekesh (plural hekeshim)
- Application of a stated law to an unstated but analogous case.
- One SCJ commentator said how he felt that the custom of kissing the mezzuzah was something that should be banned as being too close to avodah zarah. (and he made a hekesh to the nachash nechoshet)1992 September 8, Yechezkal Shimon Gutfreund, “Not a Charm?”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet)
- He regarded the hekesh as the equivalent of an explicitly written teaching.1995 June 6, Avi Sion, Judaic Logic: A Formal Analysis of Biblical, Talmudic and Rabbinic Logic, Avi Sion, →ISBN, page 150
Forms of hekesh
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Origin of hekesh
Borrowed from Hebrew הֶקֵּשׁ (hekesh).
Questions about hekesh
- What does hekesh mean?
- Hekesh means application of a stated law to an unstated but analogous case.
- What part of speech is hekesh?
- Hekesh is a noun.
- What is the plural of hekesh?
- The plural of hekesh is hekeshim.
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