hekesh
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hebrew הֶקֵּשׁ (hekesh).
Noun
[edit]hekesh (plural hekeshim)
- (Jewish law) Application of a stated law to an unstated but analogous case.
- 1995 June 6, Avi Sion, Judaic Logic: A Formal Analysis of Biblical, Talmudic and Rabbinic Logic, Avi Sion, →ISBN, page 150:
- He regarded the hekesh as the equivalent of an explicitly written teaching.
- 2006, Abraham Isaac Kook, Gold from the Land of Israel, Chanan Morrison, →ISBN, page 150:
- 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.”