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This is the number of books in the Written Torah
What is 24
This is forbidden to write down
What is the oral Torah?
This is the time period that the Rishonim lived in
When is the Medieval period (approx 1000CE-1400CE)?
This is one of the most important rules for Torah and Halacha
What is BE NORMAL???
Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Temani, Chasidi are all types of this
What are בראשית, שמות, ויקרא, במדבר, דברים
This is the number of orders of Mishnah
What is 6?
This is one of the main things the Rishonim did for halacha
Codified the laws from the Gemara
חומרא
דין
קולא
This is a minhag
This is the process of deriving information or laws from a verse
What is דרש?
When is the year 800 (or so)?
This is one of the most famous Rishonim, commenting on law and also being a doctor
Who is the Rambam?
This is a C.L.O.R.
What is a Competent Local Orthodox Rabbi?
Standing or sitting for kiddush
What is a family custom?
He wrote Shir HaShirim, Kohelet, and Mishlei.
Who is Shlomo HaMelech?
This is the purpose of Gemara
What is: to teach us how to think?
or What is: speaking out the oral tradition through dialogue to help derive law?
These commentators lived from 1400-present.
Who are the Acharonim
This is Jewish history, this is how a Jew thinks, this is how a Jew lives
What are Tanach, Gemara, and Halacha (in a responsa from the Rambam to a convert)
A minhag that becomes so widespread that it gets a status of halacha (is even called like a Torah law)
What is מנהג ישראל?
These can be used to clarify biblical law, but cannot be the source for one of the 613 mitzvot.
What is נביאים or כתובים?
This is the number of masechtas in Shas.
What is 63?
These are where Rabbis look to find halachic responsas (writings about cases in law)
Where are works of the Rishonim and Acharonim?
Psukim, Mishnah, Gemara, Rishonim, Acharonim, our lives....
What are the stages of mesorah (for halachic psak)
Laws that are not biblical, but were given at the time of the giving of the Torah
What are הלכה למשה מסני?