Halakah
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Halakahs,
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Halakoth,
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Halakot,
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Halakos
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Born in Germany during the Enlightenment, Reform Judaism rejected many restrictions imposed by Halakah, the rigid code of Jewish religious law.
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
Whereas Orthodoxy maintained that Halakah is divinely inspired and cannot be altered, Reform contended that Jews have the right to adapt their religious laws to changing conditions.
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
It is probable that contact with Roman jurisprudence had affected the practical interpretations which the Alexandrian Sanhedrin put upon the Biblical legislation, and was the cause of some of their differences from the Palestinian Halakah.
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich
He wrote Responsa and possibly the Halakot, a collection of legal and ritual rules.
From Rashi by Adele Szold
Straightway he forgot three hundred Halakot, and doubts assailed him concerning seven hundred others.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Paul Radin
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 Paul Radin
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 Adele Szold
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