Posek
Posek Posek (Hebrew פוסק, IPA: , pl. Poskim, פוסקים) is ... law where previous authorities are inconclusive. A posek may often serve as a Dayan ("judge ... of Jewish law"). The decision of a posek is known as a psak din or ... root implying to "stop" or "cease" - the posek brings the process of legal debate ...
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Talk:Posek
Talk:Posek Semicha RK: Your changes are mostly good ... IZAK 16:36, 15 January 2006 (UTC) Posek HaDor Regarding Askenazic Jewery in the US ... t HaRav Dovid Feinstein be considered the Posek? Avi 20:20, 12 January 2006 (UTC ...
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Halakha
... yet unofficially, peer-reviewed. When a rabbinic posek ("decisor") proposes a new interpretation of a ... interpretation may be considered binding for the posek's questioner or immediate community. Depending on the stature of the posek and the quality of the decision, an ... authority of later authorities, and especially the posek handling a concurrent question. In addition, the ... exceptions to this principle, which empower the posek (decisor) or beth din (court) responsible ...
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Yosef Shalom Eliashiv
... b. 1910) is a Haredi rabbi and posek ("decisor" of Jewish law) who lives in ... of mitnagdim) who regard him as the posek ha-dor (Hebrew: "Decisor [of] the Generation ... law is Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, an important posek who lives in Bnei Brak, Israel. Rabbi ... the sages in the Talmud. See also Posek Daat Torah Halakha Footnotes Note 1: Moshe ...
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List of rabbis
... Torah Law Meir Lublin, (Maharam), 16th century Posek and Talmudist Isaac Luria, (Ari), 16th century ... great Rishonim Solomon Luria, (Maharshal), 16th century Posek and Talmudist Judah Low ben Bezalel, (Maharal ... Yechezkel Landau, (Nodah bi-Yehudah), 18th century Posek and Talmudist Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, (Ramchal), 18th ... ha-Shulchan) 19th-20th century halakhist and posek (decisor) Jacob Ettlinger, 19th century German scholar ...
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Yisroel Belsky
... Belsky Yisroel Belsky is an important Haredi posek ("decisor of Jewish law") in the United ... in Brooklyn, New York. He is a posek for the Orthodox Union and a Rosh ...
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Talk:Beta Israel
... list the most well known and respected posek ruling each way, and to state which ... details of each psak, but if one posek is mentioned, that does not mean others ...
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Talk:Ultra-Orthodox Judaism/Archive 1
... only be done by a future great posek. (A future great posek that never seems to arrive.) RK This ...
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Yechiel Michel Epstein
... work, Arukh HaShulkhan), was a Rabbi and posek (authority in Jewish law) in Lithuania. His ... death. Here, he was recognised as a posek (decisor of Jewish law), and he was ...
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Joseph Soloveitchik
... S. Wurzburger Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik as Posek of Post-Modern Orthodoxy, Tradition Volume 29 ... the Rav Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik as Posek of Post-Modern Orthodoxy American "Centrist" Orthodoxy ...
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