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Definition of Halaka
1. Noun. Talmudic literature that deals with law and with the interpretation of the laws on the Hebrew Scriptures.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Halaka
Literary usage of Halaka
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The one, the halaka, was legal and casuist ic : the halaka it was that so "fenced
about ... Hillel is credited with having codified the rules of the halaka; ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Both contain halaka and Haggada, although the Mishna itself is essentially halaka,
and the Midrashim are more especially Haggadic; and consequently further ..."
3. History of the Study of Theology by Charles Augustus Briggs (1916)
"The halaka consisted in an exposition and application of the Law, usually in the
... The halaka method is legal, the Haggada illustrative and practical. ..."
4. Dictionary of the Hausa Language by Charles Henry Robinson, Hausa Association, London (1913)
"... he destroyed them ; ya halaka it is lost. o *,, halaka, n. (Ar. *£U), destruction,
misfortune, disaster. halal, halas, or hallata* (Ar. J.*. ..."
5. Jerusalem and Tiberias, Sora and Cordova: A Survey of the Religious and by John Wesley Etheridge (1856)
"The issue, conclusion, or halaka will depend on the force or weakness of the ...
the establishment of an halaka by cases of actual experience or practice. ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Many of them busied themselves with the Haggada, though the halaka was their
especial province (for Haggada and halaka see MIDRASH). ..."
7. Essays in Biblical Interpretation by Henry Preserved Smith (1921)
"The Talmud contains both halaka and Haggada, but the books which are entitled
Midrash consist almost entirely of Haggada. The material is really homiletic, ..."
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