melakhah
English
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editBorrowed from Hebrew מְלָאכָה (mal'achá, “work; labor; activities forbidden on Sabbath”).
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editmelakhah (countable and uncountable, plural melakhot)
- (Judaism) Any of the types of work forbidden on Shabbat.
- 1981, Isidor Grunfeld, The Sabbath: A Guide to Its Understanding and Observance, page 59:
- Thus, carrying an overcoat over one's shoulder is a melakhah, but wearing one is not.
- 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 725:
- Most categories of m'lakhah (activities prohibited on Shabbat and Yom Kippur) are also prohibited on the three pilgrimage festivals and Rosh ha-Shanah.