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  • They also obey the book Mishnah consists mainly of instructions for daily living known as Halakah, or "the way to walk".

    How different are different religious texts, really? 2008

  • The condition of the Halakah, that is, of religious praxis, and indeed of Judaism in general, was a very precarious one at the turn of the first Christian century.

    Hertzberg & Yoffie On The Future of Zionism | Jewschool 2003

  • For while the Halakah was the production of the Palestinian and Babylonian schools alone, the

    Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927

  • The Halakah is the outcome of this devotion in one aspect, the philosophical exegesis in another.

    Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927

  • The Halakah is the outcome of this devotion in one aspect, the philosophical exegesis in another.

    Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Bentwich, Norman 1910

  • For while the Halakah was the production of the Palestinian and Babylonian schools alone, the Haggadah brought together the harvest of all lands; and scraps of Greek philosophy found their way to Palestine before the Alexandrian school developed its systematic allegory.

    Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Bentwich, Norman 1910

  • According to a tradition which has historical confirmation, it was Akiba who systematized and brought into methodic arrangement the Mishnah, or Halakah codex; the Midrash, or the exegesis of the Halakah

    Hertzberg & Yoffie On The Future of Zionism | Jewschool 2003

  • The enormous difference between the Halakah before and after Akiba may be briefly described as follows: The old Halakah was, as its name indicates, the religious practice sanctioned as binding by tradition; to which were added extensions, and, in some cases, limitations, of the Torah, arrived at by strict logical deduction.

    Hertzberg & Yoffie On The Future of Zionism | Jewschool 2003

  • If the older Halakah is to be considered as the product of the internal struggle between Phariseeism and Sadduceeism, the Halakah of Akiba must be conceived as the result of an external contest between Judaism on the one hand and Hellenism and Hellenistic Christianity on the other.

    Hertzberg & Yoffie On The Future of Zionism | Jewschool 2003

  • Only when these questions were answered did he feel satisfied that he knew the Halakah.

    The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

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