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Halakah

American  
[hah-law-khuh, hah-lah-khah, hah-law-khaw] / hɑˈlɔ xə, hɑ lɑˈxɑ, ˌhɑ lɔˈxɔ /

noun

(often lowercase)
  • Halakahs,
    plural
  • Halakoth,
    plural
  • Halakot,
    plural
  • Halakos
    plural
  1. Halakhah.


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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

Throughout the fighting, Goren also played an active role in a rabbinical committee assigned to study the modernization of Halakah.

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

On the other hand, in his treatment of the law relating to slaves, Philo extends the liberality both of the Bible and the Halakah.

From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich

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

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

He wrote Responsa     and possibly the Halakot, a collection of legal and ritual     rules.

From Rashi by Adele Szold

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