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.

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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 Talmud
surface form: Gemara

Midrash halakha
surface form: Midrash

Mishnah
Mishnah
surface form: Oral Torah

Talmud
Torah
Torah
surface form: Written Torah

codes of Jewish law
later rabbinic rulings
responsa literature
developedIn Babylon
surface form: Babylonia

Islamic lands
Canaan
surface form: 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 Halakha self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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 Judaism
surface form: Conservative Jews

Orthodox Judaism
surface form: Orthodox Jews
relatedConcept Aggadah
religion Judaism
subfieldOf Halakha self-linksurface differs
surface form: Jewish law

religious law
timePeriodOfFormation ancient Judaism

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Yeshiva focusesOnText Halakha
Yeshiva hasCurriculumComponent Halakha
this entity surface form: Jewish law (Halakha)
Sanhedrin religiousLaw Halakha
beth din follows Halakha
this entity surface form: halakha
Kal va-chomer field Halakha
this entity surface form: Jewish law
Binyan av mi-shnei ketuvim domain Halakha
this entity surface form: Jewish law
dayan appliesLaw Halakha
Yoreh Deah legalSystem Halakha
Rav Chisda fieldOfWork Halakha
Rabbi Ishmael fieldOfWork Halakha