Halachah
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Abaii interrupts his exposition of this Halachah in order to enumerate certain antidotes to chronic fever which, he says, he had learned from his mother.
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
In its earliest forms identical with the Halachah, or the practical and legal aspects of the Mishnah and the Talmud, the Midrash, in its fuller development, became an independent branch of Rabbinical literature.
From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Abrahams, Israel
The Halachah does not enjoin as Rabbi Yossi says, and even he prohibits it only because of the risk there is in consulting demons.
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
The four cubits of the Halachah, that is what is wanted, not changes in the liturgy.
From The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
Three thousand Halachoth were forgotten at the time of mourning for Moses, and among them the Halachah respecting an animal intended for a sin-offering the owner of which died before sacrificing it.
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
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