Halakah
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Among his innovations, though, are decisions that to many other Orthodox rabbis seem to be in open contravention of Halakah.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though their differences in approach to the law have frustrated anything like Jewish theological ecumenism, most Jewish scholars agree that the way must be cleared to make Halakah more meaningful for Jews.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Without Halakah," Israeli Author Abraham Kariv told a Jerusalem symposium on Halakah last week, "we do not know how to believe, let alone how to express our faith in everyday life."
From Time Magazine Archive
"On it and on it alone," says Halakah Scholar Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz of Jerusalem, "we base our lives, our thoughts and our actions."
From Time Magazine Archive
Even in the domain of the Halakah, the Rabbis were not so much occupied with theoretic principles of law as with the concrete phenomena of daily existence.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 by Szold, Henrietta
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