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n. - Talmudic literature that deals with law and with the interpretation of the laws on the Hebrew Scriptures.

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  • 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 Karaites had their important men in Halaka as well as in religious philosophy and
  • Hillel is credited with having codified the rules of the Halaka; his original seven rules were later on enlarged to thirteen by R. Israel.
  • 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
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