(Hebrew. ‘Way of going’) A commandment or the whole body of Jewish law. It is a fundamental tenet of *Orthodoxy that the entire *halakhah goes back to *Moses who was given it by *God on Mount *Sinai. It is made up of the *Written Law as...

Jewish law (halakhah) was the major integrative factor in Jewish life from early geonic times (eighth century) until the onset of the modern era. With Jewry's ever-increasing geographic dispersion and political incapacity, Jewish identity was...

Halakha (Hebrew: הלכה ; alternate transliterations include Halocho and Halacha), is the collective corpus of Jewish religious law, including biblical law (the 613 mitzvot) and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions....