Word: halacha
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jewish enough for Israel's Ministry of the Interior. Although Mrs. Eitani's father was a Polish Jew, explains the ministry, her mother was a German Protestant-and according to the Halacha (religious law), a Jew is someone whose mother was Jewish, or a convert to the faith. The ministry demands that she turn in her passport pending the investigation of her citizenship. She has the choice of converting formally to Judaism or becoming a naturalized citizen of Israel...
...down automatically all day long, stopping at every floor. Since Jews can operate stoves if they are turned on before the Sabbath, all food in the kitchens is cooked before Friday sundown and then left to simmer through the night. Tearing toilet tissue is also forbidden by halacha, so Friday afternoons maids put white baskets containing separate sheets of paper in all the bathrooms. Guests may not check in or out or pay their bills on the Sabbath. Lights in the lobby are turned on and off automatically by electric clocks, but any other light left on accidentally must burn...
...Israel, even the big luxury hotels run kosher kitchens, but otherwise the halacha (Jewish law) is loosely observed. The Deborah, on the other hand, 1 run so religiously that one rival innkeeper calls it "a synagogue with bedrooms." Besides separate kitchens and dining rooms for meat and dairy dishes, there is a purifying bath, or mikveh, in which men immerse themselves before holidays and Sabbaths, and women after menstruation and childbirth. A staff rab bi conducts services at the hotel's own synagogue three times a day, and the chief work of hairdressers at the Debo...
...blast is the theory that the first two chapters of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke are not to be considered as historical, but as what the Jews call a midrash. A midrash is a passage of explanatory commentary on the Scripture -either in analytical, legal terms (Halacha) or dramatic, legendary terms (Haggada). Into the latter category the so-called Midrash Theory puts the Gospel narrative of the birth of Jesus-including such episodes as the angel Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin of her miraculous conception, and the beloved story about the journey of the Wise Men from...
...truly impressed by the ability of your reporter to so clearly summarize my highly technical treatment of a difficult subject before an audience of experts [Feb. 22]. However, the statement that "the lecture was a good example of how halacha changes with the times" was a serious misinterpretation of my point...