1. Definition
Both Judaic law as a whole and individual legal norms are called halacha (plural, halachot) under Judaism; the Aramaic substantive is not biblical, but rather first appears in the Tannaitic literature of the rabbis of the 1st–3rd centuries ce. According to general consensus, the term is derived from the Hebrew root hlk (“go”) and indicates the way a Jew should go. In the Torah, Moses is instructed as fo…