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The Jewish oral law. (See Gema’ra, Mishna.)
“The halachah, . . had even greater authority than the Scriptures of the Old Testament, since it explained and applied them.”—Edersheim Life of Jesus the Messiah, vol. i. book i. chap. i.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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