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Cheirem: (lit. "excommunication or dedication"); a ban of excommunication issued by the rabbinical authorities against an individual or group
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Why and how the ancient Cherem was applied
The word cherem has multiple, and sometimes contradictory, meanings in the Torah, including to ban, devote, consecrate, proscribe, excommunicate or exterminate. In our common parlance, it refers to the banning of a person through excommunication. A cherem...
Rabbi Elazar of Kozhnitz would tell this tale, which illustrates the immense value and spiritual power of even a single mitzvah.
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