Definitions for halacha

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halacha Ha·la·cha

Spelling: [hah-law-khuh; Sephardic Hebrew hah-lah- Halacha is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in halacha (aaachhl).

Definitions for halacha

noun

1. Halakhah.
2. (often lowercase) the entire body of Jewish law and tradition comprising the laws of the Bible, the oral law as transcribed in the legal portion of the Talmud, and subsequent legal codes amending or modifying traditional precepts to conform to contemporary conditions.
3. a law or tradition established by the Halakhah.

Origin of halacha

First recorded in 1855-60, Halakhah is from the Hebrew word hălākhāh, literally, way

Examples for halacha

Your business is the Halacha, to determine what actions are forbidden or permitted by religion.

Halacha was the rule of religious praxis, a sort of Directorium Judaicum: Haggada was the result of free religious reflection.

Talmudic legislation, the Halacha, by no means confines itself to religious practices, extensive as this field is.

It must, of course, be borne in mind that Halacha and Haggada are not separate works; they are two fibres of the same thread.

Abbahu, the only one who was a native of Juda, was a person of much originality, but of no authority in the Halacha.

What was the merit of the school of Hillel that the Halacha should be pronounced to be according to it?

The two great divisions of Halacha and Agadd have already been explained in the chapter on the Mishna (xxxi).

The Halacha continued the instruction of the prophets, as the Hag195gada fostered the spirit of the psalmists.

He admitted philosophy into his religious Code, and conceded it a place of equal importance with the Halacha.

They were put into the form of short sentences, called "Halacha."