psak

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew פְּסָק (p'sák)

Noun

psak (plural piskei)

  1. A decisive rabbinic ruling on halachic law.
    • 1999 November 2, Yisroel Markov, “Personal Kiddush”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):
      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.
    • 2004 October 18, mos...@mm.huji.ac.il, “Simple questions (yah, right)”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
      Words like "reasonable to say" and "arguably" betoken a "gut feeling" rather than a clear psak.
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