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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Jewish law) 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)
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.”
Use hekesh when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hekesh means (Jewish law) Application of a stated law to an unstated but analogous case..
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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)
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