Halacha
Rabbinic legal tradition
Halacha is Jewish religious law, the system of rules and principles governing observant Jewish life.
Derived from Torah, Talmud, and centuries of rabbinic interpretation, it addresses everything from prayer and Sabbath observance to business ethics and family relationships: Orthodox Jews follow Halacha in matters of diet and dress.
Also spelled Halakha or Halakhah. (Lowercase halacha is the same word, sometimes used for specific rulings rather than the system.)
Jewish spiritual leader
Jewish religious commandments
Jewish religious study institution
- commentariesExplanatory notes on texts
- midrashJewish biblical commentary
- beit midrashJewish house of study
- sugyaTalmudic thematic passage
rabbi
Jewish spiritual leader
mitzvot
Jewish religious commandments
yeshiva
Jewish religious study institution
- commentariesExplanatory notes on texts
- midrashJewish biblical commentary
- beit midrashJewish house of study
bar mitzvah
Jewish adulthood ceremony
- bat mitzvahFemale Jewish adulthood rite
- brisJewish circumcision ceremony
- havdalahSeparation or division
kiddush · mikvah · seder · shofar · tefillin · mezuzah · tallit · aliyah · candle lighting
mussar
Jewish ethical discipline
- gemilut chasadimHebrew term for kindness
- JudaismShabbat, kosher, Passover, Torah, Hanukkah
- Jewish ThoughtKabbalah, Jewish ethics, Jewish mysticism, Torah study, Jewish tradition
- Torah studyTorah study, Torah reading, parsha, Torah portion, Mishnah
- Jewish textsTorah, Tanakh, Talmud, Mishnah, siddur
- SephardicLadino, Sephardi, Judeo-Spanish, expulsion, 1492
Halachasecular law
Legal code without religious basis
civil law · common law · state law · constitutional law · human law