Definition of "halacha" [halacha]

• Alternative capitalization of Halacha (noun)

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• "When I asked a Ashkenazi Jewish friend about this phenomena of equating “Jewish food” with only “Eastern European food,” he said, “I think that it is a symptom of a much more widespread phenomenon … where Eastern European everything is considered ‘the Jewish way '… even in halacha (Jewish law), minhagim (customs), prayers ….”"
• "Or is the history being shoehorned into the definition because Adler thinks it’s important that the word halacha be useful to “progressive Jews”?"
• "But Judaism has a legal code called halacha, and Christianity reverences both the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount as principles greater than any law."