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- noun Alternative capitalization of
Halacha
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When I asked a Ashkenazi Jewish friend about this phenomena of equating “Jewish food” with only “Eastern European food,” he said, “I think that it is a symptom of a much more widespread phenomenon … where Eastern European everything is considered ‘the Jewish way '… even in halacha (Jewish law), minhagim (customs), prayers ….”
Global Voices in English » Israel: For the Love of Food 2009
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Or is the history being shoehorned into the definition because Adler thinks it’s important that the word halacha be useful to “progressive Jews”?
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But Judaism has a legal code called halacha, and Christianity reverences both the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount as principles greater than any law.
Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy: An Open Letter To Herman Cain Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy 2011
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But Judaism has a legal code called halacha, and Christianity reverences both the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount as principles greater than any law.
Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy: An Open Letter To Herman Cain Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy 2011
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But Judaism has a legal code called halacha, and Christianity reverences both the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount as principles greater than any law.
Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy: An Open Letter To Herman Cain Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy 2011
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But Judaism has a legal code called halacha, and Christianity reverences both the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount as principles greater than any law.
Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy: An Open Letter To Herman Cain Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy 2011
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Jews are committed to the modern ideology of personal sovereignty, which rubs up against the notion of halacha as a binding set of laws.
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They were beholden to the details of Jewish law - halacha, a word I didn't know.
Lily Blau: Fashion and Faith: God, Gucci, and What Happened Along the Way Lily Blau 2010
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They were beholden to the details of Jewish law - halacha, a word I didn't know.
Lily Blau: Fashion and Faith: God, Gucci, and What Happened Along the Way Lily Blau 2010
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They were beholden to the details of Jewish law - halacha, a word I didn't know.
Lily Blau: Fashion and Faith: God, Gucci, and What Happened Along the Way Lily Blau 2010
john commented on the word halacha
“We’re trying to combine making a modern Jewish state with age-old Jewish law,�? said Dan Marans, executive director of Zomet. That requires both a deep knowledge of Judaism’s legal code, or halacha, and a bit of ingenuity.
The New York Times, Entrepreneurs Find Ways to Make Technology Work With Jewish Sabbath, by Dan Levin, September 1, 2008
September 2, 2008