• Halakha (redirect from Halakhah)
    romanized: hălāḵā, Sephardic: [halaˈχa]), also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, and halocho (Ashkenazic: [haˈlɔχɔ]), is the collective body of Jewish...
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    A law given to Moses at Sinai (Hebrew: הלכה למשה מסיני, romanized: Halakhah le-Moshe mi-Sinai) refers to a halakhic law for which there is no biblical...
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  • the Qumran Hodayot. His PhD thesis eventually became his first book, The Halakhah at Qumran. Schiffman is a member of the University's Center for Ancient...
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  • view, see rabbi David Golinkin's essay "The Whys and Hows of Conservative Halakhah", Elliot N. Dorff's "The Unfolding Tradition" (esp. introduction and chapter...
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    this view, there is a difference between Noachide law and halakhah. According to halakhah, when a Jew was liable for capital punishment it was a mandatory...
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  • dialogue. He founded the Solomon B. Freehof Institute for Progressive Halakhah in 1991, an international forum for Jewish law. In Germany, he co-founded...
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  • September 1897). "Sefer ha-yerushot: ʻim yeter ha-mikhtavim be-divre ha-halakhah be-ʻAravit uve-ʻIvrit uve-Aramit". Ernest Leroux. Retrieved 28 September...
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  • Judaism has teachings and guidance for its adherents through the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature relating to the notion and concept of peace. The...
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    Liberal Judaism and Halakhah, Rodef Shalom Press, 1988. pp. 90–94.; Michael A. Meyer, "Changing Attitudes of Liberal Judaism toward Halakhah and Minhag", Proceedings...
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    Ezekiel 16:49–50 Michaelson, Jay. God vs. Gay. pp. 69–70. "Jewish Ethics and Halakhah For Our Time". JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality)...
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  • Labour laws (also spelled as labor laws), labour code or employment laws are those that mediate the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade...
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    ISBN 978-0-19-518826-4. כ"ץ, יעקב; Katz, Jacob (1980). "Post-Zoharic Relations between Halakhah and Kabbalah / יחסי הלכה וקבלה בדורות שלאחר "התגלות" הזוהר". Daat: A Journal...
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  • (printed in Nachmanides, Sefer haEmunah vehaBitachon, Warsaw: 1877, p.1) "Halakhah: Jewish Law / Torah 101 / Mechon Mamre". Archived from the original on...
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  • will generally extend a law to new situations but will not change the Halakhah. Conservative Judaism approaches the idea of posek, and Halakha in general...
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  • of the letter that contains a series of interpretations of Jewish law (Halakhah), and section C is the conclusion. 4QMMT A commences with a discussion...
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    of his books are devoted to Halakhah (Jewish Law), his primary field of study, including Responsa of the Va’ad Halakhah of the Rabbinical Assembly of...
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    difference in the method of interpretation between the older and the younger halakhah. It was a generally accepted opinion that the first Passover celebrated...
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  • the Committee, or may even find a different position best mandated by halakhah." Gordon Tucker has argued that RA members should give "extraordinary weight"...
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    friends to antisemitism, to pop Kaballah. Menachem Finkelstein, Conversion: Halakhah and Practice, Bar-Ilan University Press, 2006, 784 pp. - This is the most...
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    difficult and needed explanation by later commentators. His lasting effect on halakhah was the incorporation of the Kabbalistic customs of Safed, especially those...
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    prominent critiques is from Abraham Joshua Heschel, who wrote: Ish Ha-halakhah? Lo haya velo nivra ela mashal haya! [Halakhic Man? Such a Jew has never...
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  • Jewish law. The town rabbi, with his extensive knowledge of Torah law (halakhah), was expected to preside as Head of the Court (av beth din), although...
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    Washofsky, Mark (2002). "Taking Precedent Seriously". Re-Examining Progressive Halakhah edited by Walter Jacob, Moshe Zemer. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-404-3...
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    be outward looking while maintaining a discourse between modernity and halakhah. The resultant "Open Orthodoxy" seeks to re-engage with secular studies...
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    Judaism and halakhah as being inextricably intertwined, halakhah and our relationship to it having indeed shaped Judaism. "Through Halakhah the Word from...
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    York: Brill; Continuum. ISBN 978-90-04-10583-6. Neusner, Jacob (2000). The Halakhah: An Encyclopaedia of the Law of Judaism. The Brill Reference Library of...
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    his thesis was entitled "The Karaite Halakhah and Its Relation to Sadducean, Samaritan, and Philonian Halakhah". In November 1908, Revel was introduced...
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    on 2 December 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2006. Neusner, Jacob (2000). The Halakhah: An Encyclopaedia of the Law of Judaism. Boston, Massachusetts: BRILL....
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    the Prophets and Kings / "Annales". i. 592 et seq; ii. 187. "Gittin 68". Halakhah. Translated by Simon, M. Leet, Leonora (1999). "The hexagram and Hebraic...
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    the development of Halakhah....As Messianic Jews, we affirm the special precedence given to scriptural law in traditional Halakhah, while likewise affirming...
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