Halakah
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
HALAKAH or halacha both: hala kha, halakha Heb.,=law, in...civil relations, criminal law, and relations with non-Jews. Halakah is the term used to designate both a particular ordinance...Maimonides and the Shulhan Arukh the set table by Joseph Karo. Halakah was the important unifying force in world Jewry until modern...