Halakha
Halakha (halakhah, halacha, halachah הלכה) is a Hebrew word, commonly used to refer to the collective corpus of Jewish law, custom and tradition regulating all aspects of behaviour. Halakhah derives from the Hebrew הלך, halach, going; thus a literal translation does not yield "law", rather "the way to go." Halakha constitutes the practical application of the commandments in the Torah, (the five books of Moses, the Written Law) as developed through discussion and debate in the classical rabbinic literature, especially the Mishnah and the Talmud (the Oral law).