hekesh

plural hekeshim

1. JewishlawApplication of a stated law to an unstated but analogous case.

   He regarded the hekesh as the equivalent of an explicitly written teaching.

   1995 June 6, Avi Sion, Judaic Logic: A Formal Analysis of Biblical, Talmudic and Rabbinic Logic, Avi Sion, →ISBN, page 150

   2 more examples

   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)

   1992 September 8, Yechezkal Shimon Gutfreund, “Not a Charm?”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet)

   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.”

   2006, Abraham Isaac Kook, Gold from the Land of Israel, Chanan Morrison, →ISBN, page 150