Halaka

My understanding is that Halaka puts him in the same legal status as a gentile who worships idols, except that if he repents, he does not need to undergo conversion.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Yglesias at JStreet 2009

Hillel is credited with having codified the rules of the Halaka; his original seven rules were later on enlarged to thirteen by R. Israel.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Halaka it was that so "fenced about the Law" as to render it impossible; the other, the Hagada, was illustrative and practical, embracing innumerable legends and allegories intended to illustrate and enlarge Biblical history, but in reality obscuring it in a maze of idle and fanciful inventions.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

As a whole the Halaka is an artificial system, jaundiced by its evident purpose to offer the means of engrafting the tradition on the stem of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

From the Halaka and Hagada were subsequently derived the Peshat, or determination of the literal sense, and the Sodh, or determination of the mystical or allegorical sense.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

These are the discussions of the _Halaka_ (the legal and ceremonial portions).

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907

Besides the Halaka and Agada are full of interpretations of Biblical texts which are very far from the literal and have little to do with the context.

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907

The Bible he knew only in the Greek translation, not in the original Hebrew; and of the Halaka, which was still in the making in

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907

The Karaites had their important men in Halaka as well as in religious philosophy and

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907

But a sheriff ruled that Christopher Halaka had not committed a sectarian offence because he had not wanted to cause "ill-will" to a particular group.

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