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pesak

pesak is the alternative form of psak.

Meaning of psak

Noun

psak (plural piskei)

  1. A decisive rabbinic ruling on halachic law.
    • By the end of the meal one of them remembered a psak that said that women eating together should make a mezumen. They debated it while I looked in the Shulchan Aruch for anything that says so or otherwise.1999 November 2, Yisroel Markov, “Personal Kiddush”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet)

Forms of pesak

pluralpesakim

Questions about pesak

What is pesak the alternative form of?
Pesak is the alternative form of psak.

Words near pesak in the dictionary

  1. pesadik
  2. pesage
  3. pesages
  4. Pesah
  5. Pesaha appam
  6. pesak
  7. Pesakh
  8. pesane
  9. pesanes
  10. pesant
  11. pesante

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