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noun
decisor; legal scholar who decides the Halacha in cases where previous authorities are inconclusive or no halakhic precedent exists.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Judaism
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History
Borrowed from Hebrew פּוֹסֵק (posék, “arbiter”).
