Definition of Halaka

1. Noun. Talmudic literature that deals with law and with the interpretation of the laws on the Hebrew Scriptures.

Exact synonyms: Halacha, Halakah
Generic synonyms: Talmudic Literature

Lexicographical Neighbors of Halaka

Hakka
Hakka dialect
Hakkanese
Hakkapeliitta
Hakkapeliittas
Hakkas
Hakkoz
Hakluytian
Hakomi
Halabja
Halacha
Halachas
Halachos
Halachot
Halachoth
Halaka
Halakah
Halberstaedter-Prowazek bodies
Halchidhoma
Halcion
Haldane
Haldane's apparatus
Haldane's evolutionary unit
Haldane-Priestley sample
Haldane chamber
Haldane effect
Haldane relationship
Haldane transformation
Haldane tube

Literary usage of Halaka

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The one, the halaka, was legal and casuist ic : the halaka it was that so "fenced about ... Hillel is credited with having codified the rules of the halaka; ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Both contain halaka and Haggada, although the Mishna itself is essentially halaka, and the Midrashim are more especially Haggadic; and consequently further ..."

3. History of the Study of Theology by Charles Augustus Briggs (1916)
"The halaka consisted in an exposition and application of the Law, usually in the ... The halaka method is legal, the Haggada illustrative and practical. ..."

4. Dictionary of the Hausa Language by Charles Henry Robinson, Hausa Association, London (1913)
"... he destroyed them ; ya halaka it is lost. o *,, halaka, n. (Ar. *£U), destruction, misfortune, disaster. halal, halas, or hallata* (Ar. J.*. ..."

5. Jerusalem and Tiberias, Sora and Cordova: A Survey of the Religious and by John Wesley Etheridge (1856)
"The issue, conclusion, or halaka will depend on the force or weakness of the ... the establishment of an halaka by cases of actual experience or practice. ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Many of them busied themselves with the Haggada, though the halaka was their especial province (for Haggada and halaka see MIDRASH). ..."

7. Essays in Biblical Interpretation by Henry Preserved Smith (1921)
"The Talmud contains both halaka and Haggada, but the books which are entitled Midrash consist almost entirely of Haggada. The material is really homiletic, ..."

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