Hekesh
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hekesh is a noun meaning (Jewish law) Application of a stated law to an unstated but analogous case.
Meaning
(Jewish law) Application of a stated law to an unstated but analogous case.
Example Sentences
He regarded the hekesh as the equivalent of an explicitly written teaching.
Talmudic tradition (Shabbat 92a) connects them with a hekesh, teaching that both reached full stature: “Just as the mishkan was ten cubits tall, so too the altar was ten cubits tall.”
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)
Word Forms
- hekeshim
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