Halakha

Halakha(הֲלָכָה, alsotransliteratedashalacha,halachahorhalocho) is the collective body ofJewishreligious lawsderived from theWrittenandOral Torah.

A full set of the Babylonian Talmud

Quotes

• Halakhicman, well furnished with rules, judgments, and fundamental principles, draws near the world with ana priorirelation. His approach begins with an ideal creation and concludes with a real one. To whom may he be compared? To a mathematician who fashions an ideal world and then uses it for the purpose of establishing a relationship between it and the real world.... The essence of the Halakhah, which was received from God, consists in creating an ideal world and cognizing the relationship between that ideal world and our concrete environment.
  • Joseph B. Soloveitchik,Halakhic Man(1983), p. 19