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Piska tava "is the non-Yiddish version of "a git kvittel".

A kvittel being usually written on a small piece of paper ie, "piska"

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Gershon Dubin <gershon.dubin at juno.com>wrote:

> From: Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org>
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> <<Lifsoq is to stop.
>
> If you think about it the idiom "pesaq halakhah" seems to be saying the
> poseiq deemed one tzad unusable, rather than about declaring his own
> position din.
>
> As RSBA's question denotes, though, I think that it's translating
> the idiomatic use of pisqa as though it were literal, perhaps because
> "gemar chasimah" is already being passed around. And therefore it's a
> translation arror. Again, until I hear more about L.>>
>
> Piska tava is with a "sov", not a samech (Hebrew speakers, think "petek"
>
> Gershon
> gershon.dubin at juno.com
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>
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