hekesh

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"One SCJ commentator said how he felt that the custom of kissing the mezzuzah was something that should be banned as being too close to avodah zarah. (and he made a hekesh to the nachash nechoshet)"
"He regarded the hekesh as the equivalent of an explicitly written teaching."
"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.”"

Borrowed from Hebrew הֶקֵּשׁ (hekesh).

hekeshim (plural)

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