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.

Many Ashkenazi Jews in fact also have mixed Sephardic origins, as a result of exiles from Spain, first during Islamic persecutions ( 11th-12th centuries ) and later Christian conquests ( 13th-15th centuries ) and Spanish Inquisition ( 15th-16th centuries ).

Over the first decades after liberation, with the departure of most ethnic Turks and Greeks and the arrival of Bulgarians from inland, Northern Dobruja, Bessarabia, and Asia Minor, and later, of refugees from Macedonia, Eastern Thrace and Southern Dobruja following the Second Balkan War and the First World War, ethnic diversity gave way to Bulgarian predominance, although sizeable minorities of Gagauz, Armenians, and Sephardic Jews remained for decades.

Despite this convergence, there were distinctions between the liturgies of different parts of the Iberian peninsula: for example the Lisbon and Catalonian rites were somewhat different from the Castilian rite, which formed the basis of the later Sephardic tradition.

The reasons were diverse: An overall reduction in its natural voting population ; the political moderation of many Orthodox Jews ; its turn towards the right-wing ; the growing importance of the right-left schism in Israeli politics ; and the rise of Orthodox Sephardic parties such as Tami and later Shas.

These were later augmented by Spanish Sephardic Jews who, fleeing the Spanish Catholic Inquisition, established a presence in North Africa, chiefly in the urban trading centers.

The precise role of Sephardic Jews in the early development is unclear, but it is certain that Jews play a prominent role in the later development of Papiamento.

Papiamento is, in some degree, intelligible with Cape Verdean creoles and could be explained by the immigration of Portuguese Sephardic Jews from Cape Verde to these Caribbean islands, although this same fact could also be used by dissenters to explain a later Portuguese influence on an already existing Spanish-based creole.

Two years later he founded ' Or HaTorah ' Yeshiva for gifted Sephardic Yeshiva students.

This Yeshiva ( which did not remain open for long ) was the first of many which he established, later with the help of his sons, in order to facilitate Torah education for Sephardic Jews and establish the leadership of the community for future generations.

Several centuries later, following the mass forced conversion of Sephardi Jews ( those Jews with extended histories in Spain and Portugal, known jointly as Iberia, or " Sepharad " in Hebrew ) of the 14th and 15th centuries, the term " anusim " became widely used by Spanish rabbis and their successors for the following 600 years, henceforth becoming associated with Sephardic history.

When the Aleppo Codex was complete ( until 1947 ), it followed the Tiberian textual tradition in the order of its books, similar to the Leningrad Codex, and which also matches the later tradition of Sephardic biblical manuscripts.

In the Sephardic liturgy, the introduction begins with the words ראשון לציון, Rishon L ' tsion and consists of biblical verses describing God giving light and success interspersed with later liturgical prose.

These Sephardim later assimilated with the majority of local Ashkenazic Jewry, but many retained surnames of either Turkic origin or otherwise suggestive of Sephardic descent.

Twenty years later Salvador sold ( 243 km² ) of land for £ 3, 000 to thirteen London Sephardic Jews.

Permanent family surnames exist today but only gained popularity among Sephardic Jews in Iberia and elsewhere as early as the 10th or 11th century and did not spread widely to the Ashkenazic Jews of Germany or Eastern Europe until much later.

The order of the books in the Leningrad Codex follows the Tiberian textual tradition, which is also that of the later tradition of Sephardic biblical manuscripts.

It was later given by Sultan Bayezid II to the Muslim Arab refugees from Al-Andalus who – together with the Sephardic Jews – escaped the Spanish Inquisition in 1492 and settled in the Galata neighborhood of Istanbul ( hence its current name, Arab Mosque.

These ( and later versions printed in Vienna ) were widely used throughout the Sephardic and Mizrahi world.

It could be that the reason for the Czech preference of Mieszko was the existence in Bohemia of a mission which followed the precepts of the Byzantine Greek brothers and later saints Cyril and Methodius, who developed and performed the liturgy in the Slavic rite, more readily understood by Mieszko and his subjects.

The exclamation which accompanied the triumphal rite was attested in the Carmen Arvale ; to Romans of the later Republic, this ancient religious chant was probably as obscure in meaning as it is to modern scholarship.

* Peechee ( Pesew-‘ Mountain Lion ’, also known as Louis Piche ), Chief of the Asini Wachi Nehiyawak and later the head chief of the ' Rocky / Mountain Cree ' or Asini Wachi Wi Iniwak, born about 1821, introduced under the Asini Wachi Wi Iniwak the Catholic rite, his three sons, Piyesew Chak, Keskayiwew (' Bobtail ') and Ermineskin were also significant chiefs, Pesew and his elder son Chak Piyesew were killed during a gambling dispute in 1843, among his sons-in-law were the chiefs Samson, Chiniki, Bearspaw, Capote Blank and Jacques Cardinal )

For instance, in the pre-1970 form of the Roman Rite, the Gospel of the Last Sunday is and in the later form of that rite all the last three Sundays have similar themes.

Arthur Berriedale Keith in “ The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads, Vol 2 ” has noted that Savitr is never mentioned as having part in the Soma sacrifice, " a fact which is doubtless fair evidence that the Rig veda did not know him as having a place in the rite, and that he was later brought in, perhaps because of his growing importance, perhaps as an Aditya.

" Novus Ordo Missae ", or simply " Novus Ordo ", later became a specific composite term used to refer to the revised rite of Mass in its entirety.

Any information on Yaropolk's baptism according to the Latin rite would be suppressed by later Orthodox chroniclers, zealous to keep Vladimir's image of the Russian Apostle untarnished for succeeding generations.

In the United Methodist Church, confirmation is a rite in which individuals baptized in infancy later recognize the work of God's grace and embrace discipleship.

From references in later treatises such as the Sefer ha-Manhig by Rabbi Abraham ben Nathan ha-Yarḥi ( c. 1204 ), it appears that even at that later time the Spanish rite preserved certain European peculiarities that have since been eliminated in order to conform to the rulings of the Geonim and the official texts based on them.

The naked bodies of the seven dead, including Lloyd, were later recovered ; all had been decapitated as part of a Hauhau rite.

The rite of the king's touch began in France with Robert II the Pious, but legend later attributed the practice to Clovis as Merovingian founder of the Holy Roman kingdom, and Edward the Confessor in England.

In the 20th century it also gained prominence and prestige from the attentions of two other scholarly Archbishops of Milan: Achille Ratti, later Pope Pius XI, and the Blessed Ildefonso Schuster, both of whom had been involved in studies and publications on the rite before their appointment.

He rejects entirely the Ephesine supposition, and considers that the Orientalisms which he recognizes in the Hispano-Gallican Rite are of much later origin than the period of St. Irenæus, and that it was from Milan as a centre that a rite, imported or modified from the East, perhaps by the Cappadocian Arian Bishop Auxentius ( 355-374 ), the predecessor of St. Ambrose, gradually spread to Gaul, Spain, and Britain.

He later self-immolated whilst chanting vedic mantras in a Hindu rite.

Robert E. Lee later sanctioned streaking as a rite of passage for young Washington and Lee gentlemen.

After going through the Ferengi coming of age rite, he requests an apprenticeship under Commander, later Captain, Benjamin Sisko in order to attend Starfleet Academy (" Heart of Stone ").

At the time this order was formally defined and confined exclusively to exorcism of the catechumen in the rite of Baptism, leaving exorcisms of demons to priests ; but its role was later expanded.

In episode 4 of the Adult Saga in the official Ocarina of Time manga series, " Link Vs. Link ", Impa gives Link earrings, describing it as a " rite of passage for young Sheikah men "; these later became default aspects of Link's design, starting with Twilight Princess and in Skyward Sword.

Following this theory, any information on Yaropolk's baptism according to the Latin rite would be suppressed by the later Orthodox chroniclers, zealous to keep Vladimir's image of the Russian Apostle untarnished for succeeding generations.

The rite can span several days, extending no later than Black Saturday, but is usually ended before 3 pm of Good Friday ( the time when Jesus died on the cross ).

The Tigillum Sororium was a rite ( sacrum ) of the gens Horatia and later of the State.

According to Pentecostal historian H. Vinson Synan, " the basic premise of Pentecostalism, that one may receive later effusions of the Spirit after initiation / conversion, can be clearly traced in Christian history to the beginnings of the rite of confirmation in the Western churches ".