Halacha describes the evolving system of Jewish legal instruction that regulates religious practice, ethics, and everyday conduct. Rooted in the Torah and developed through interpretation, debate, and application, halacha covers matters such as worship, food, family life, commerce, and communal responsibility. It functions less as a fixed code and more as a process of guidance, preserved through teaching and precedent. Halacha connects belief to action by translating tradition into concrete practices that organize individual and communal life across time.
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- Johnson, Luke Timothy, Brother of Jesus, Friend of God: Studies in the Letter of James
- Safrai, Shmuel, Jesus and the Hasidim
- Fletcher-Louis, Crispin, "Jewish Mysticism, the New Testament, and Rabbinic-Period Mysticism" in Bieringer, Reimund, Florentino García Martínez, Didier Pollefeyt (ed.) The New Testament and Rabbinic Literature
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