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‖ Halachah, Halakah|həˈlɑːkə|
Also halacha, -aka.
[Heb. hălākāh (pl. hălākōth) that which one walks by, f. hālak to walk.]
A legal decision regarding a matter or case for which there is no direct enactment in the Mosaic law, deduced by analogy from this law or from the Scriptures, and included as a binding precept in the Mishna.
1856Etheridge Jerus. & Tiberias 182 Hilkatha, or Halaka, the ultimate conclusion on a matter debated; henceforth constituting a rule of conduct; from halak, ‘to walk’. 1881W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jew. Ch. iii. 13 Halacha was legal teaching, systematized legal precept. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 555 He was met by Rabbi Eliezer in the street of Sepphoris, and gave to the Rabbi a Halacha, or legal decision, which pleased him, on Deut. xxiii. 19.
Hence Haˈlachic a., of, pertaining to, or relating to the Halachah. Haˈlachist, one who deduces laws from the Bible.
1856Etheridge Jerus. & Tiberias 428 An entire systematic discourse..on an halakic thema. 1878Academy 606/1 A great Halakhic teacher in Castille at the time of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 473 The Jewish Halachists, who spend their whole lives in torturing strange inferences out of Levitic regulations. |