Halakah
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Among the most detailed provisions of Halakah are its dietary laws.
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
"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
Among his innovations, though, are decisions that to many other Orthodox rabbis seem to be in open contravention of Halakah.
From Time Magazine Archive
What has been said up to this point indicates the position taken by Rashi with regard to the Halakah.
From Rashi by Szold, Adele
Straightway he forgot three hundred Halakot, and doubts assailed him concerning seven hundred others.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Radin, Paul
Besides Responsa, he left the "Halakot," or "Little Talmud," which Is a pruning down of the entire Talmud, so as to present only what is useful for establishing the norm, deduced by Alfasi himself.
From Rashi by Szold, Adele
If you will observe these statutes, you will receive many more, the Ten Commandments, the Halakot, and the Haggadot; the Torah, however, will bring you happiness and life.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Radin, Paul
He wrote Responsa and possibly the Halakot, a collection of legal and ritual rules.
From Rashi by Szold, Adele
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