Meaning of psak | Babel Free

Definitions

A decisive rabbinic ruling on halachic law.

Examples

“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.”

“Words like "reasonable to say" and "arguably" betoken a "gut feeling" rather than a clear psak.”

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