The recent works of Halakha, Kaf HaChaim, Ben Ish Chai and Yalkut Yosef are considered authoritative in many Sephardic communities.

Accordingly, the term Sephardic Jew refers to Jews who follow Sephardic Halakha.

Shas advocates a state run according to Halakha, the Jewish religious law, and actively engages in the Baal teshuva movement, encouraging non-Orthodox Israelis of Sephardic and Mizrahi-Jewish heritage to adopt a Haredi Jewish lifestyle.

Specifically, he argues that Yosef's halakhic approach is not, as Yosef attempts to portray it, a return to a traditional form of Sephardic ruling, but rather an innovative formulation of a particular Sephardic approach to Halakha which Yosef himself fashioned.

Yosef sees this as one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Sephardic approach to Halakha compared to the Ashkenazi approach.

This position is contrary to the traditional long-standing Sephardic approach to ruling Halakha, including many Sephardic poskim to this day.

Yosef Chaim or in Iraqi Hebrew Yoseph Ḥayyim ( 1 September 1832 – 30 August 1909 ) ( Hebrew: יוסף חיים מבגדאד ) was a leading hakham ( Sephardic Rabbi ), authority on Jewish law ( Halakha ) and Master Kabbalist.

* Hebrew Pronunciation, Rabbi Gil Student about how Hebrew should be pronounced in prayer, in accordance with Halakha and Poskim

The name Halakha is derived from the Hebrew halakh ה ָ ל ַ ך ְ, which means " to walk " or " to go "; thus a literal translation does not yield " law ", but rather " the way to go ".

* Sources on Halakha and the role of women in Hebrew and English by Bar Ilan University Professor Meir Kalech

* Sources on Halakha and the role of women in Hebrew and English by Bar Ilan University Professor Meir Kalech

Shlomo Ganzfried ( Solomon ben Joseph Ganzfried ; Hungary, 1804 to 1886 ) was an Orthodox rabbi and posek best known as author of the work of Halakha ( Jewish law ), the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch ( Hebrew: קיצור שולחן ערוך, " The Abbreviated Shulchan Aruch "), by which title he is also known.

The Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation ( established in 1989 ) is a non-profit Orthodox Jewish organization based in Monsey, New York, United States, dedicated to spreading the teachings of Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan who was known as the Chofetz Chaim ( " Seeker Life " in Hebrew ) based on his work of Jewish ethics of the same name dealing with the prohibitions of gossip, slander and defamation known as Lashon Hara in Jewish law ( Halakha ).

Yalkut Yosef ( ילקוט יוסף ; Hebrew: " Collation of works of Ovadia Yosef ") is an authoritative, contemporary work of Halakha, providing a detailed explanation of the Shulchan Aruch as based on the halachic rulings of the former Rishon LeTzion Rav Ovadia Yosef.

Hanina Ben-Menahem is an Oxford trained scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who specializes in Jewish law ( Halakha ).

In addition to his knowledge of Talmud and Halakha, the Mordechai was also an expert on Hebrew grammar.

Elijah Mizrachi ( Hebrew: אליהו מזרחי ) ( c. 1455 – 1525 or 1526 ) was a Talmudist and posek, an authority on Halakha.

Moses ben Jacob of Coucy ( Hebrew: משה בן יעקב מקוצי ) was a French Tosafist and authority on Halakha ( Jewish law ).

Concerning interpretation of Halakha ( or Jewish law ): because of Judaism's legal tradition, the fundamental differences between modern Jewish denominations also involve the relevance, interpretation, and application of Jewish law and tradition.

According to Halakha, the ownership of such chametz is also proscribed.

Samuel is also described by the Rabbis as having been extremely intelligent ; he argued that it was legitimate for laymen to slaughter sacrifices, since the Halakha only insisted that the priests bring the blood ( cf, Zebahim 32a ).

The question of the nature of Barnacle Geese also came up as a matter of Jewish dietary law in the Halakha, and Rabbeinu Tam ( 1100 – 71 ) determined that they were kosher ( even if born of trees ) and should be slaughtered following the normal prescriptions for birds.

The Mishnah Berurah is accompanied by additional in-depth glosses called Be ' ur Halakha, a reference section called Sha ' ar Hatziyun ( these two were also written by the Chofetz Chaim ), and additional commentaries called Be ' er Hagolah, Be ' er Heitev, and Sha ' arei Teshuvah.

The Mishneh Torah (, " Repetition of the Torah ") subtitled Sefer Yad HaHazaka ( ספר יד החזקה " Book of the Strong Hand ,") is a code of Jewish religious law ( Halakha ) authored by Maimonides ( Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, also known as RaMBaM or " Rambam "), one of history's foremost rabbis.

The period of counting the Omer is also a time of semi-mourning, during which the Halakha forbids haircuts, shaving, listening to instrumental music, or conducting weddings, parties, and dinners with dancing.

He is best known as author of the work on Halakha Ben Ish Ḥai ( בן איש חי ) (" Son of Man ( who ) Lives "), by which title he is also colloquially known.

Moses Isserles, also spelled Moshe Isserlis, ( 1520-May 11, 1572 ), was an eminent Ashkenazic rabbi, talmudist, and posek, renowned for his fundamental work of Halakha ( Jewish law ), entitled ha-Mapah ( lit., " the tablecloth "), an inline commentary on the Shulchan Aruch ( lit.

It also supports preserving Israel as a Jewish state by increasing Jewish immigration, limiting immigration by people who are not Jewish according to Halakha, and Jewish education in public schools, and is against territorial compromise, citing the stance of Rabbi Chaim Zimmerman, who wrote a halakhic discourse entitled " The Prohibition of Abandoning Land in Eretz Yisrael ".

Women and girls may also choose to perform the mitzvah of waving the lulav and etrog, although they are not required by Halakha to do so.

This work also surveys the views of many kabbalistic sages ( particularly Isaac Luria ), when these impact the Halakha.

An eruv ( mixture, also transliterated as eiruv or erub, plural: eruvin ) is a ritual enclosure that some religious Jewish communities construct in their neighborhoods as a way to permit the transference of objects from one domain type to another, such as carrying an object from indoors ( a private domain ) to a public street ( a public domain ) on Shabbat, which they would otherwise understand to be prohibited by Jewish religious law ( Halakha ).

He also laid the cornerstone for a community hospital to be run according to the strictest standards of Halakha.

Next to the Halakha, Chorin also interpreted the Aggadah in a philosophical way.

Orthodox Judaism holds that Halakha is the divine law as laid out in the Torah ( First five books of Moses ), rabbinical laws, rabbinical decrees and customs combined.

Orthodox Jews maintain Halakha is derived from the divine law of the Torah ( Bible ), rabbinical laws, rabbinical decrees and customs combined.

The head of the Israeli Masorti movement's Vaad Halakha ( equivalent to the CJLS ), Rabbi David Golinkin, wrote the CJLS protesting its reconsideration of the traditional ban on homosexual conduct.

It offers additional aggadic and midrashic material, and it sometimes contradicts the Mishnah in the ruling of Halakha ( Jewish religious law ), or in attributing in whose name a law was stated.

This custom is not required by Halakha ( Jewish religious law ), however, and Israelites may be called up for all aliyot.

9 ), who, in opposition to his Judaean colleague, Shammai, generally advocated milder interpretations of Halakha ( Jewish law and tradition ) and whose disciples stood in like opposition to Shammai's disciples.

Because it is split-hooved and has a three-chambered stomach ( and was thus thought to be a ruminant for a long time ), there was some dispute in Halakha ( Jewish law ) as to whether the babirusa is, in fact, kosher ( permitted according to Jewish dietary laws ).

Even though normally an Orthodox beth din requires a minimum of three Jews knowledgeable and observant of Halakha ( Jewish Law ), in new communities and exigencies, providing a thorough search has proved unfruitful, halakhah provides that even one Orthodox Jew can establish a beth din, since every Orthodox community is required to establish its own beth din.

Halakha ( Jewish law ), especially the Talmud tractate Shabbat, identifies thirty-nine categories of activity prohibited on Shabbat (), and clarifies many questions surrounding the application of the biblical prohibitions.

Halakha ( Jewish law ) derives many further forbidden acts from these categories ( toledoth and shevuth ), with varying severity, that may not be performed except for preventing severe illness or death.

Contrary to popular belief, however, Ramak was not one of the rabbis who received the special semicha (" ordination ") from Rabbi Jacob Berab in 1538, alongside Rabbi Yosef Karo ( Cordovero's teacher in Halakha ), Rabbi Moshe of Trani, Rabbi Yosef Sagis, and Rabbi Moshe Alshich.

He is known for introducing the notion that in the event of a " life or death situation ", Halakha does not apply ( unless it involves the transgression of Judaism's three " cardinal sins ": Worship of idols ( avoda zara ), sexual immorality ( gilui arayot ), and murder ( shfichut damim when a Jew is then obligated to give his life ( yehareg ve ' al ya ' avor ) rather than transgress the Torah's commandments ).

Orach Chayim ( אורח חיים ) " manner of life " is a section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of Halakha ( Jewish law ), Arba ' ah Turim.

Seclusion ), in Halakha ( Jewish religious law ) is the impermissibility of seclusion of a man and a woman who are not married to each other in a private area.

Whereas Halakha ( law ), from the word for walking-path, means the path or road set for the journey, minhag ( custom ), from the word for driving, means the manner people have developed themselves to travel down that path more quickly.

His first publication was Ueber Einige Fragmente aus der Mischna des Abba Saul ( Berlin, 1876 ), in which he showed that the Mishnah collections of the foremost teachers in the period before the final redaction of the Mishnah itself, including that of Abba Saul, agreed as regards all the essential points of the Halakha.