Halaka


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

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Regarding the syndicate's training centre, Halaka said that it provides short period training programmes, only one week long.
Ian Cameron said he stepped in when Christopher Halaka sparked an angry reaction by singing sectarian songs as he approached a taxi rank He said he was trying to calm down Halaka, 31, and his uncle Laurence Winters, 43.
PCs Christopher Halaka and David Clark stopped the vehicle after reports of a suspected drink driver.
The fundamental treaty which regulates life of the Jews is called 'the Halaka' (which means 'the March' in Hebrew), a way to behave, to live in family and in the community" (13).
Since the days of Halaka your city and your lands have been subject to the tyranny of strangers, your:palaces have fallen into ruins, your gardens have sunk in desolation, and your forefathers and yourselves have groaned in bondage.
Additionally, Naguib Halaka has joined the company as director of R&D.
In this century, it has been primarily secularized nationalists, Labor Zionism inside and outside of Israel, political racism and its race theories, as well as psychological and sociological theories which have broadened the definitions of being Jewish beyond the standards of traditional Jewish religious law (Halaka).
The General Syndicate for Tourism and Hotels requested a meeting with Minister of Manpower and Emigration Nahed Ashri in order to discuss an annual allowance of 7% for workers this year, according to Syndicate Chairman Bassem Halaka.
Summary: "I love making beautiful work," says John Halaka, "but I want to make beautiful work that bugs the s**t out of the audience."
PC Christopher Halaka was arrested in the early hours at a taxi rank in Perth.
Blumenthal ("Philosophic Mysticism: The Ultimate Goal of Medieval Judaism"), in which he analyzes several passages in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed and Misneh Torn and concludes that the ultimate goal of human existence in the great doctor's conception was not just the union of good praxis (halaka) and correct gnosis (de'd), but in fact the attainment of a "post-intellectual mystical state" within and beyond the union of good praxis and correct gnosis, "which is the true, absolute, pure worship of God" (p.
(144) This answer is most likely on the part of the Jews as it contains more than a touch of the concept of Muslim supersession of earlier revelations (Wansbrough, Qur anic Studies, 192ff.), although it may, perhaps, allude to the halakic concept of halaka ke-batrai ("the law is according to the last [most recent, authorities]"), which, of course, does not imply abrogation of a previous legal interpretation, but rather refers to the cumulative growth and development of a law that builds upon and amplifies the ideas of predecessors (Ensiqlopedia Talmudit [Jerusalem, 1959], 9: 341-45, s.v., "halaka ke-batrai").