Halakah

American  

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

noun

(often lowercase)

plural

Halakahs,

plural

Halakoth, Halakot, Halakos

1. Halakhah.

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Other Word Forms

• Halakic adjective

Example Sentences

"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

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

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

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

Halachah, Halakah, Halacha, ha-lak′�, n. an amplification of points not explicitly set forth in the Mosaic law, deduced from it by analogy, and arranged in the collection of legal precepts designated Halachoth.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various