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Definition of Halakah
1. Noun. Talmudic literature that deals with law and with the interpretation of the laws on the Hebrew Scriptures.
Definition of Halakah
1. halacha [n -KAHS or -KOTH] : HALAKIC [adj] - See also: halacha
Lexicographical Neighbors of Halakah
Literary usage of Halakah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short Survey of the Literature of Rabbinical and Mediæval Judaism by William Oscar Emil Oesterley, George Herbert Box (1920)
"(ii) Midrash halakah and Midrash Haggadah The vast Midrashic literature may'broadly
be divided into two main classes : the ..."
2. Education in Ancient Israel: From Earliest Times to 70 A.D. by Fletcher Harper Swift (1919)
"Various methods of interpretation must be learned and practised. The
Hagadah (literally "narrative") was not distinguishable in method from the halakah. ..."
3. The Ritual of Eldad Ha-Dani: Reconstructed and Ed. from Manuscripts and a by Eldad (1908)
"19) represents a substitution of the halakah of the Tur (§ 58) for the halakah
of Eldad on the case of an ox that has fallen into a pit (= A, § 24). ..."
4. Collection of pamphlets and articles on Judaism and Jewish life during Roman (1903)
"He thinks that this older halakah dates from the early Hasmonean period, ...
He also cites a survival of this older halakah in the Babylonian Talmud, ..."
5. Essays and Addresses by Owens College (1874)
"The halakah and the Haggadah are not, however, marked off by a hard and fast line
of division ; they overlap and interlace each other very frequently in ..."
6. An Encyclopaedia of Religions by Maurice Arthur Canney (1921)
"These two points of view, I repeat, are the soul of the Midrash in general; the
latter above all serves as the common basis of the halakah and ..."
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