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The legal system developed by the Jewish community built on the mitzvot (commandments) in the Torah is called halacha. It is analogous to canon law in the Catholic Church or sharia law in the Islamic community. The word halacha means, literally, "a way of walking" or, less literally, "the Way." The Talmud is, at heart, a record of the arguments and counter arguments in the academies of Roman Palestine and Babylon about halacha. In the middle ages, Jews began attempting to produce concise law codes. Joseph Karo's Shulchan Aruch, completed in 1563 in Safed (in Ottoman Palestine), remains the most important of these law codes.
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Organized set of laws?
Codes or Statutes.
What is a set of laws for slaves called?
slave codes
What set of laws was greatly important to judaism?
Was and still is. The answer is: The laws of the Torah, which contains the several hundred basic commands of Judaism.See also:More about the Torah's laws
Why were Hammurabi's codes important?
because it was the first set of laws written down p.s. it's Hammurabi's code not codes
Was judaism the first religion to set down laws?
There were earlier idolaters who had their own laws. These include the laws of Lipit-Ishtar, those of Hammurabi, those of Eshnunna, and the Hittite code.
What were laws pertaining to slavery called?
The laws pertaining to slavery were called slave codes or black codes. These were a set of laws that defined the legal status and rights of enslaved individuals, as well as the responsibilities and limitations of slave owners. These laws varied across different regions and time periods in history.
Are there any laws or rules in Judaism. If so what are they?
There are 613 mitzvot (guidelines) in Judaism, all of which appear in the Torah (known by Christians as the Pentateuch). Judaism also has a fully developed set of laws, similar to those of any country, these laws are called 'halacha' and can be found in the Talmud. For a complete list of these commandments, please check the related link or Google: 613 mitzvot.
What were the set of laws that took away the rights of slaves?
Slave codes
A set of laws that regulated slavery and defined the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people?
Slave code
Which religious leader both interprets and teaches the laws of Judaism?
A Rabbi or a Cantor (or anyone for that matter) can interpret and teach the laws of Judaism.
Was the napoleonic code good or bad?
The Napoleonic codes were an attempt to settle all verbal and unwritten laws in a larger, fixed set of laws. That had the effect of unifying the regional rules into a national one, and to make the law clearer for judges and the population; these codes formed the basis for the Civil or the Criminal codes in France and in many countries in Europe, and had a lot of influence on the set of laws in the former French colonies.
Judaism's most important laws are in what category?
Religious law within Judaism is called 'Halacha' and is recorded in the Talmud.
