Crossword-Solution: HALACHAH 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

HALACHAH, HALAKAH, HALACHA, ha-lak'ä, _n._ an amplification of points not explicitly set forth in the Mosaic law, deduced from it by analogy, and arranged in the collection of legal precepts designated _Halachoth_.--_adj._ HALACH'IC, pertaining to halachoth, legal as opposed to homiletic or haggadic.

Frankel’s masterly essays on the Essenes and the Septuagint, his well‐known work, _Introduction to the __ Mishnah_, and the results of Geiger’s most interesting and suggestive researches on the older and later Halachah, and on the Pharisees and Sadducees, had yet to be written.

But comparatively little has been done for the Halachah, though Frankel, Geiger, Herzfeld, and others have treated some single points in various monographs.

Thus it was left for Weiss to write the _History of Tradition_, which includes both the Agadah and the Halachah.

Round the Law (Torah) had gathered a vast number of explanatory directions, and a certain number of traditional additions known as “Haggadah.” The first of these, the directions or explanations, were known by the term “Halachah.”[153] It had become necessary, seeing that the Law of Moses was accepted as the divine code for the guidance of the Chosen People, to explain and enlarge it further, so as to apply its brief enactments to all the conditions of everyday life.