Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is learned in the halachah (which see).

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Examples

  • Many rabbis, including such luminaries as Rashi (11th-century France), and the halachist/mystic Eleazer of Worms (12th - to 13th-century Germany) rejected it, leaving room for others, most noticeably a radical shift that pictured the evil child as a universal type, not just a variant version of internal Jewish identity-formation.

    The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

  • Many rabbis, including such luminaries as Rashi (11th-century France), and the halachist/mystic Eleazer of Worms (12th - to 13th-century Germany) rejected it, leaving room for others, most noticeably a radical shift that pictured the evil child as a universal type, not just a variant version of internal Jewish identity-formation.

    The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

  • He says he's writing this, not as a halachist but as a Jewish philosopher … It's not within the realm of halacha. "

    Your Moral Leader 2010

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