deciser
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deciser (plural decisers)
- (Judaism) A rabbi who interprets Jewish religious law.
- 1987, Alan M. Tigay, editor, The Jewish Traveler:
- Artist Archie Rand's iconograpy[sic] on thirty-seven themes was declared “kosher” for the Orthodox synagogue by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, the leading halakhic deciser of his time.