Halacha
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How to use Halacha in a sentence
He admitted philosophy into his religious Code, and conceded it a place of equal importance with the Halacha.
History of the Jews, Vol. III (of 6) | Heinrich GraetzYour business is the Halacha, to determine what actions are forbidden or permitted by religion.
History of the Jews, Vol. III (of 6) | Heinrich GraetzAbbahu, the only one who was a native of Juda, was a person of much originality, but of no authority in the Halacha.
History of the Jews, Vol. II (of 6) | Heinrich GraetzThe Mishna embraced only the plain Halacha in artistically constructed paragraphs of the Law.
History of the Jews, Vol. II (of 6) | Heinrich GraetzTalmudic legislation, the Halacha, by no means confines itself to religious practices, extensive as this field is.
Jewish History | S. M. Dubnow
British Dictionary definitions for Halacha
Halaka or Halakha
/ (Hebrew hɑlɑˈxɑː, Yiddish hɑˈloxə) /
Jewish religious law
a ruling on some specific matter
that part of the Talmud which is concerned with legal matters as distinct from homiletics
Jewish legal literature in general
Origin of Halacha
1- Compare Aggadah (def. 1)
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