decisor

There is a proper pattern for all interactions, which must be maintained, and his role as decisor is to guarantee the integrity of these distinctions.

Feinstein, Rabbi Moses. 2009

Thus in Jewry the leadership of a rabbi finds expression in that he is both a posek (decisor) in matters of Jewish law (halakhah) and a spiritual-educational mentor.

Leaders in Israel's Religious Communities. 2009

The Rambam (1138 – 1204), who was considered the leading decisor (the mara de-atra, or supreme halakhic authority) in Palestine and Egypt, explicitly ruled: “If [the woman] said: ‘I cannot abide him or be intimate with him willingly,’ we compel him to divorce her immediately, for she is not as a captive that she must be intimate with one who is hateful to her” (Hilkhot Ishut 14: 8).

Levant: Women in the Jewish Communities after the Ottoman Conquest of 1517. 2009

During this period, he also served as the chief posek (legal decisor) of Modern Orthodoxy in America and one of its chief architects in shaping communal policy.

Soloveitchik, Rabbi Joseph Dov. 2009

Last month, Jerusalem's Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, a highly regarded 99-year-old halachic decisor who also signed onto the elevator ruling, declared that wearing braces interfered with a woman's ability to become ritually clean in the mikveh because the requirement is to be free of all unnatural material during immersion.

The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

Last month, Jerusalem's Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, a highly regarded 99-year-old halachic decisor who also signed onto the elevator ruling, declared that wearing braces interfered with a woman's ability to become ritually clean in the mikveh because the requirement is to be free of all unnatural material during immersion.

The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

Last month, Jerusalem's Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, a highly regarded 99-year-old halachic decisor who also signed onto the elevator ruling, declared that wearing braces interfered with a woman's ability to become ritually clean in the mikveh because the requirement is to be free of all unnatural material during immersion.

The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

In contemporary times, rabbi denotes a teacher and legal decisor, Maroof says, not an officiant at religious functions.

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In contemporary times, rabbi denotes a teacher and legal decisor, Maroof says, not an officiant at religious functions.

JTA - Recent News 2009

Rabbi Tendler contends that his father-in-law, the famous Halachic-decisor Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, was well aware of his custom to go up on the mount and never dissuaded Tendler from doing so.

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