Meaning of hekesh | Babel Free

Definitions

Application of a stated law to an unstated but analogous case.

Jewish

Examples

“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.””

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