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  • While there remain areas of substantive difference and even conflict between sharia and the laws of the United States or Canada as exist between these systems and Halakhah, various articulations of Protestantism or Catholic social teaching, taken as a whole, the area of agreement, or at least compatibility, is potentially far larger.

    Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia And Day To Day Existence Sherman A. Jackson 2011

  • Enough for him to suggest the logic behind such and such Halakhah -- the root of Halakh in Hebrew is to walk or to go and the literal translation a way of conducting one's life -- and any further debate, or God forbid, questioning of his opinion was a lost case.

    Dora Levy Mossanen: An Elegy to My Father 2010

  • Having rejected the traditions of the past, based on the religious values of Torah and Halakhah, contemporary Jews have recreated a religious culture based on the rituals and demands of the Jewish state and Zionism.

    David Shasha: What Israel Means to Me 2010

  • Having rejected the traditions of the past, based on the religious values of Torah and Halakhah, contemporary Jews have recreated a religious culture based on the rituals and demands of the Jewish state and Zionism.

    David Shasha: What Israel Means to Me 2010

  • While the Halakhah, Jewish civil and ritual law, is the stern discipline of Jewish life, the Aggadic Midrash is its fountain of creativity.

    David Shasha: Understanding Midrash 2010

  • Enough for him to suggest the logic behind such and such Halakhah -- the root of Halakh in Hebrew is to walk or to go and the literal translation a way of conducting one's life -- and any further debate, or God forbid, questioning of his opinion was a lost case.

    Dora Levy Mossanen: An Elegy to My Father 2010

  • While the Halakhah, Jewish civil and ritual law, is the stern discipline of Jewish life, the Aggadic Midrash is its fountain of creativity.

    Understanding Midrash 2010

  • Enough for him to suggest the logic behind such and such Halakhah -- the root of Halakh in Hebrew is to walk or to go and the literal translation a way of conducting one's life -- and any further debate, or God forbid, questioning of his opinion was a lost case.

    Dora Levy Mossanen: An Elegy to My Father 2010

  • Having rejected the traditions of the past, based on the religious values of Torah and Halakhah, contemporary Jews have recreated a religious culture based on the rituals and demands of the Jewish state and Zionism.

    David Shasha: What Israel Means to Me 2010

  • Halakhah results from theological presumptions one of which is the fundamental otherness of women.

    Judith Plaskow. 2009

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