Meaning & use
Cherem
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In Jewish law and tradition, a formal ban or decree of excommunication pronounced against a person, or, in biblical usage, something devoted to destruction.
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The rabbinic court placed the merchant under cherem for repeatedly violating communal agreements.
In the Hebrew Bible, cities under cherem were to be utterly destroyed as an act of consecration to God.
A note on using this word
Cherem (also spelled herem) is a Hebrew loanword still used in discussions of Jewish religious law and biblical history.
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