halachot

Ha·la·cha

[hah-law-khuh; Sephardic Hebrew hah-lah-khah; Ashkenazic Hebrew hah-law-khaw]
noun, plural Ha·la·chas Hebrew, Ha·la·choth, Ha·la·chot, Ha·la·chos [Sephardic Hebrew -lah-khawt; Ashkenazic Hebrew -law-khohs] . ( often lowercase )
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Ha·la·chah

[hah-law-khuh; Sephardic Hebrew hah-lah-khah; Ashkenazic Hebrew hah-law-khaw]
noun, plural Ha·la·chahs Hebrew, Ha·la·choth, Ha·la·chot, Ha·la·chos [Sephardic Hebrew -lah-khawt; Ashkenazic Hebrew -law-khohs] . ( often lowercase )
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Halacha, Halaka or Halakha (Hebrew hɑlɑˈxɑː, Yiddish hɑˈloxə, Hebrew hɑlɑˈxɑː, Yiddish hɑˈloxə, Hebrew hɑlɑˈxɑː, Yiddish hɑˈloxə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  a.  Jewish religious law
 b.  a ruling on some specific matter
2.  a.  that part of the Talmud which is concerned with legal matters as distinct from homiletics
 b.  Jewish legal literature in general
 
[from Hebrew hǎlākhāh way]
 
Halaka, Halaka or Halakha
 
n
 
[from Hebrew hǎlākhāh way]
 
Halakha, Halaka or Halakha
 
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[from Hebrew hǎlākhāh way]

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