Definitions for Halachah

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Halachah Ha·la·chah

Spelling: [hah-law-khuh; Sephardic Hebrew hah-lah- Halachah is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in Halachah (aaachhhl).

Definitions for Halachah

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 Halachah

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

Examples for Halachah

The Halachah covered part of the ground which is usually occupied in a nation's life by the civil and criminal law.

I have shown that progressive development was most marked along the line of the Halachah.

It was they who worked out the Halachah, as it was they who carried out its principle into the minutest details of practice.

The masters of Halachah were not engaged upon the construction de novo of a system of ethics or a system of law.

It is the Halachah which has laid the Pharisees open to so much misrepresentation and obloquy.

Hence it was possible to elaborate a consistent system of Halachah, and eventually to codify it all.

And all this had its place in their thought along with the Halachah.

It was the Halachah which gave rise to the common opinion that Torah is the same as Law.

I believe that, if the Pharisees had had nothing more than the Halachah, they would still have made a religion out of it.

This detailed rule of right conduct is what is denoted by the name Halachah.