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Webster 1913 Edition


Halacha

Ha-la′cha

(hȧ-lä′kȧ)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Halachoth
(-kōth)
.
[Heb.
halāchāh
.]
The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See
Midrash
.