Halacha

The life of halakic observance can often seem--for both insiders and outsiders--repetitive, monotonous, and distinctively uneventful.

Shemesh states: "the scrolls attest to the first stages of fixed interpretative formulas pertaining to halakic matters that would later become ...

Their topics include contemporizing Halakic exegesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the question of political peace and independence in the additions to Daniel, reading Deuteronomy in the Second Temple period, and reading the decline of prophecy.

This is when the halakic heavy hitters meet in conference rooms lined with Torah, Talmud, and the commentaries.

His mother was Jewish, and therefore--by strict halakic standards--so was he.

Offering differing interpretations of halakic sources, Reisner and Dorff reach quite different conclusions about whether and when life-sustaining treatment may be withdrawn.

In one case, for example, Bell speaks of "halakic" identity when she means "ethnic" identity, resulting in the misleading labeling of "halakic Jews" as those with only genetic claims, and wrongfully excluding all "converts" from this category (195).

In July 1995, during the intense national debate that took place following the Oslo DOP and the Cairo implementation agreements, seven rabbis (eight more joined the ruling later on) belonging to the Council of Religious Zionist Rabbis and headed by former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Avraham Shapira issued another religious (halakic) edict.

This law, together with the Nationality Law,(299) grants for every Jew the right to become a citizen of Israel.(300) It has been regarded as one of the pillars of the unwritten Israel constitution, in the sense that it gives effect to one of the basic purposes of the very establishment of the State.(301) The conflict of this law arises between the secular definition of Jewish identity for nationality purposes and the Jewish Halakic definition for personal status purposes.(302) According to the Halakhah, a Jew is anyone born to a Jewish mother.(303) This specific definition (or lack thereof) in the Law of Return, is the source of great debate.(304)

A haggadic (nonlegal) or halakic (legal) exposition of the underlying significance of a biblical text.

The halakic (orthodox) definition of a Jew is a person "whose mother was Jewish or converted to Judaism." P.