Halakah
Americannoun
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Halakahs,
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Halakoth,
plural
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Halakot,
plural
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Halakos
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Orthodox rabbis are pleased that there are separate hours for men and women to use the building's swimming pool, which is the only one in Jerusalem that observes the rigid Halakah prohibition against mixed bathing.
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
The Conservative branch of Judaism considers Halakah of divine origin but believes in adapting it to the times by a less restrictive interpretation of custom.
From Time Magazine Archive
While the Halakah remained antagonistic to proselytism on account of its narrow adherence to the spirit of the Priestly Code, the Haggadah exhibits a broader view.
From Jewish Theology by Kaufmann Kohler
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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