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What does halachic mean?

• dsr_ 5y ago
  ha-lacha is "the law", specifically religious law. halachic, then, is "with respect to Jewish law". The equivalent in Islam is sharia and fiqh. The equivalent in Catholicism is called canon law.
  • dotancohen 5y ago
    Small correction. "Ha-lacha" would be "the phlegm". "Halacha" (without the separation of the leading "ha") is "the (proper) way (to act)".
    • SonOfLilit 5y ago
      "Ha lecha" would mean "the phlegm". "Ha lacha" could mean "the moist", but I think GP tried to use the apostrophe to lengthen the first syllable in the single word "halacha" so it would read HAlacha and not haLAcha.