Ashkenazi halakha

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Ashkenazi halakha is the body of Jewish religious law and customs as interpreted and practiced by Ashkenazi communities, particularly shaped by medieval and early modern European rabbinic authorities.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish legal tradition
halakhic tradition
associatedWith Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi communities
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews
authorityStructure local rabbinate
poskim
basedOn Talmud
Torah
rabbinic literature
codifiedIn Arba’ah Turim
Aruch HaShulchan
Igrot Moshe
Mappah
Mishnah Berurah
Rema’s glosses on the Shulchan Aruch
developedIn early modern Europe
medieval Europe
differsFrom Sephardi halakha
Yemenite halakha
geographicFocus Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
hasCustomsTerm minhag Ashkenaz
minhag Polin
hasSubtradition German Ashkenaz tradition
Hasidic halakhic customs
Mitnagdic halakhic customs
minhag Galicia
minhag Lita
historicalCenter Bohemia
Germany
Lithuania
Poland
includes Passover stringencies
Sabbath observance rules
dietary laws
divorce law
family purity laws
festival observance rules
kitniyot prohibition on Passover
liturgical customs
marriage law
mezuzah customs
mourning practices
prayer customs
synagogue practice
tefillin customs
influencedBy Maharil
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein
Rabbi Moshe Isserles
Rabbi Yaakov Moelin
Rabbi Yaakov ben Asher
linked to: Yaakov ben Asher

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan
linked to: Yisrael Meir Kagan

Rashi
Tosafists
linked to: Tosafist movement
languageOfCommentary Hebrew
Yiddish
languageOfSources Aramaic
Hebrew
legalMethodology emphasis on Tosafist dialectics
use of minhag as binding precedent
modernCenter Canada
France
Israel
United Kingdom
United States
practicedBy Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews
linked to: Ashkenazi Jews

many Conservative Ashkenazi Jews
recognizesConcept chumra
kulah
minhag hamakom
psak halakha
religiousContext Judaism

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Rema of Kraków influenced Ashkenazi halakha
Shulchan Aruch hasInfluenceOn Ashkenazi halakha
subject linked to: Karo family
ShUM cities influenced Ashkenazi halakha
Yaakov Moelin legalTradition Ashkenazic halakha
subject linked to: Rabbi Yaakov Moelin
linked to: Ashkenazi halakha
Moshe Isserles influenced Ashkenazi halakha
subject linked to: author Moshe Isserles
Mordechai ben Hillel legalSchool Ashkenazi school of halakha
linked to: Ashkenazi halakha