machloket

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Pronunciations

machloket (mahkh-LOH-ket) listen
machlokes (mahkh-LOY-kes) listen

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Definitions

  • n. A disagreement, argument, conflict; especially about a halachic issue.

Example Sentences

  • "Hillel and Shamai have a machloket over when someone can say Shema."

  • "Look, I don't want to go into the whole machloket between Freud and Jun..." (Glinert)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish
  • Modern Hebrew

Etymology

  • TH מחלוקת makhlóket 'dispute, controversy' > Y מחלוקת makhlóykes

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education

      Regions

      • North America
      • Australia / New Zealand
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
      • The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).

      Alternative Spellings

      machlokes, makhloyke, makhloykes

Notes

  • This traditionally refers to rabbinic arguments, but in modern times can refer to any disagreement.

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