Halakha () ( Sephardic Hebrew pronunciation ) ( ha-la-chAH )— also transliterated Halocho ( Ashkenazic Hebrew pronunciation ) ( ha-LUH-chuh ), or Halacha — is the collective body of religious laws for Jews, including biblical law ( the 613 mitzvot ) and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions.

Under contemporary Israeli law, however, certain areas of Israeli family and personal status law are under the authority of the rabbinic courts and are therefore treated according to Halakha.

The term Halakha may refer to a single law, to the literary corpus of rabbinic legal texts, or to the overall system of religious law.

Halakha is often contrasted with Aggadah, the diverse corpus of rabbinic exegetical, narrative, philosophical, mystical, and other " non-legal " literatures.

Halakha constitutes the practical application of the 613 mitzvot (" commandments ", singular: mitzvah ) in the Torah, ( the five books of Moses, the " Written Law ") as developed through discussion and debate in the classical rabbinic literature, especially the Mishnah and the Talmud ( the " Oral law "), and as codified in the Mishneh Torah or Shulchan Aruch ( the Jewish " Code of Law ".

Broadly, the Halakha comprises the practical application of the commandments ( each one known as a mitzvah ) in the Torah, as developed in subsequent rabbinic literature ; see The Mitzvot and Jewish Law.

Halakha (; literally " walking "), the rabbinic Jewish way of life is based on a combined reading of the Torah, and the oral tradition, including the Mishnah, the halakhic Midrash, the Talmud, and its commentaries.

The Halakha is the development of the Mitzvot as contained in the written law, via discussion and debate in the Oral law, as recorded in the rabbinic literature of the classical era, especially the Mishnah and the Talmud.

* In 20th and 21st centuries, Orthodox rabbis often engage in applied ethics by interpreting rabbinic law ( Halakha ) in responsa ( formal opinions ).

Besides the term anusim, Halakha has various classifications for those Jews who have abandoned, or are no longer committed to, the rabbinic Jewish tradition, whether or not they have converted to another religion.

The " Brisk dynasty " and their followers ( known as " Briskers ") are known for a tendency towards strictness in the Halakha ( Jewish law ); if there is ever a doubt between two rabbinic opinions, the " Brisk way " is more likely to follow the more stringent one.

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.

* Halakha For Our Time: A Conservative Approach To Jewish Law, David Golinkin, United Synagogue, 1991

Halakha is often translated as " Jewish Law ", although a more literal translation might be " the path " or " the way of walking ".

Historically in the diaspora, Halakha served many Jewish communities as an enforceable avenue of civil and religious law.

Since the Age of Enlightenment, emancipation, and haskalah in the modern era, Jewish citizens are bound to Halakha only by their voluntary consent.

Some differences in Halakha itself are found among Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, Sephardi, and Yemenite Jews, which are reflective of the historic and geographic diversity of various Jewish communities within the Diaspora.

* Dina d ' malchuta dina (" the law of the land is law "): an additional aspect of Halakha, being the principle recognizing non-Jewish laws and non-Jewish legal jurisdiction as binding on Jewish citizens, provided that they are not contrary to any laws of Judaism.

Notwithstanding the potential for innovation, rabbis and Jewish communities differ greatly on how they make changes in Halakha.

An example of how different views of the origin of Jewish law inform Conservative approaches to interpreting that law involves the CJLS's acceptance of Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz's responsum decreeing the Biblical category of mamzer as " inoperative ", in which The CJLS adopted the Responsum's view that of how, in the Conservative view of Halakha, the " morality which we learn through the unfolding narrative of our tradition " informs the application of Mosaic law:

Whereas Jewish philosophers often debate whether God is immanent or transcendent, and whether people have free will or their lives are determined, Halakha is a system through which any Jew acts to bring God into the world.

Instead of just studying Halakha, Louis Ginzberg wrote responsa, formal responses to questions of Jewish law.

* Halakha – Jewish law

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.

The central claim of Kahanism is that the vast majority of the Arabs of Israel are now, and will continue to be, enemies of Jews and Israel itself, and that a Jewish theocratic state, governed by Halakha, absent of a voting non-Jewish population and including Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, areas of modern-day Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and even Iraq should be created.

* The compilation of the Babylonian Talmud, the source of the majority of Jewish Halakha, is completed.

* Reform and Reconstructionist rabbis, on the premise that all the main movements are legitimate expressions of Judaism, will accept the legitimacy of other rabbis ' leadership, though will not accept their views on Jewish law, since Reform and Reconstructionism reject Halakha as binding.

These include moral responsibility for own actions, eligibility to be called to read from the Torah and lead or participate in a Minyan, May possess personal property, May be legally married according to Jewish law, Must follow the 613 laws of the Torah and keep the Halakha, May testify as a witness in a Beth Din ( Rabbinical court ) case.

The idea of a perfect text sanctified in its consonantal base quickly spread throughout the Jewish communities via supportive statements in Halakha, Aggada, and Jewish thought ; and with it increasingly forceful strictures that a deviation in even a single letter would make a Torah scroll invalid.

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

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 ".

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 ).

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

Halakha guides not only religious practices and beliefs, but numerous aspects of day-to-day life.

The Halakha is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of human life, both corporeal and spiritual.

" Hurwitz herself said, " In fact, Halakha does not support the eradication of women from public leadership and ritual life.

His influence on people in different walks of life was already noticeable, as he engaged in kiruv (" Jewish outreach "), thereby creating a greater role for Torah and Halakha in the life of the city and the nearby settlements.

And in any case it is known that the Rabbis who preceded me were subordinate to their Ashkenazi counterparts, the Gaon Rabbi Benzion Uziel Z " l was subordinate to the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook ZT " L ... and the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Toledano Z " l in his capacity as Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa could not even raise his head towards his colleague, may he be chosen for a good life, the Gaon Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman Shlit " a and to disagree with him on Halakha ...

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.

Rabbeinu Chananel trained Alfasi to deduce and to clarify the Halakha from Talmudic sources, and Alfasi then conceived of the idea of compiling a comprehensive work that would present all of the practical conclusions of the Gemara in a clear, definitive manner.