Halakha

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Halakha is the comprehensive body of traditional Jewish religious law and practice derived from the Torah, Talmud, and later rabbinic rulings.


Statements (79)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish religious law
component of Judaism
normative tradition
religious legal system
appliesTo Sabbath observance
charity
civil law
commercial law
conversion to Judaism
dietary laws
divorce
ethics
family purity
festival observance
kashrut
marriage
modesty laws
mourning practices
prayer
ritual practice
synagogue practice
tort law
codifiedIn Arba’ah Turim
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch
Mishnah Berurah
Mishneh Torah
Shulchan Aruch
contrastedWith Aggadah
derivedFrom Gemara
Midrash
Mishnah
Oral Torah
Talmud
Torah
Written Torah
codes of Jewish law
later rabbinic rulings
responsa literature
developedIn Babylonia
Islamic lands
Land of Israel
medieval Europe
governs Jewish communal life
Jewish personal status
prohibitions
religious obligations
hasAspect binding law
custom
leniency
stringency
hasComponent d’Oraita law
d’Rabbanan law
gezerot
minhag
takkanot
hasMethod Talmudic analysis
hermeneutic rules
legal reasoning
hasNameInHebrew הלכה
hasSourcePrinciple dina de-malkhuta dina
lifnim mishurat hadin
marit ayin
pikuach nefesh
safek d’Oraita lechumra
safek d’Rabbanan lekula
influences daily life of observant Jews
interpretedBy poskim
rabbis
languageOfPrimarySources Aramaic
Hebrew
literalMeaning the path
the way
observedBy Conservative Jews
Orthodox Jews
relatedConcept Aggadah
religion Judaism
subfieldOf Jewish law
religious law
timePeriodOfFormation ancient Judaism


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