Someone made a comment on another of my answer that "breaking halakha = sin." And I've heard this kind of statement before, but never with any arguments or philosophy for why that is or how it works. And while I can think of very many halakhot that I would agree are sins if broken, there are also lots of caveats and nuance that make me think it's not so straight forward. As someone pointed out in the comments below, breaking Shabbat is a sin unless you are doing it to save a life.

The Torah has many categories of sin, and depending on what law you break or how you break it determines what kind of sin it is. Do these same sin categories exist with violating different kinds of halakhot? Or is it a matter of how you break the halakha that determines it's sin category?

And what about halakhot that don't seem to be moral in nature. If one puts on his shoe on the wrong foot first, has he sinned to the point that God will judge against them for it? If they put on shoes wrong every day for their life does that mean they will have thousands of sins racked against them on judgment day?

Someone made a comment on another of my answer that "breaking halakha = sin." And I've heard this kind of statement before, but never with any arguments or philosophy for why that is or how it works. And while I can think of very many halakhot that I would agree are sins if broken, there are also lots of caveats and nuance that make me think it's not so straight forward. As someone pointed out in the comments below, breaking Shabbat is a sin unless you are doing it to save a life.

The Torah has many categories of sin, and depending on what law you break or how you break it determines what kind of sin it is. For example:

Pesha (deliberate sin; in modern Hebrew: crime) or Mered (lit.: rebellion) - An intentional sin; an action committed in deliberate defiance of God; (Strong's Concordance :H6588 (פשע pesha', peh'shah). According to Strong it comes from the root (:H6586); rebellion, transgression, trespass.

Awon (lit.: iniquity) - This is a sin of lust or uncontrollable emotion. It is a sin done knowingly, but not done to defy God; (Strong's Concordance :H5771 (avon, aw-vone). According to Strong it comes from the root (:H5753); meaning perversity, moral evil:--fault, iniquity, mischief.

Cheit - This is an unintentional sin, crime or fault. (Strong's Concordance :H2399 (חַטָּא chate). According to Strong it comes from the root khaw-taw (:H2398, H2403) meaning "to miss, to err from the mark (speaking of an archer), to sin, to stumble."

Do these same sin categories exist with violating different kinds of halakhot? Or is it a matter of how you break the halakha that determines it's sin category?

And what about halakhot that don't seem to be moral in nature. If one puts on his shoe on the wrong foot first, has he sinned to the point that God will judge against them for it? If they put on shoes wrong every day for their life does that mean they will have thousands of sins racked against them on judgment day?

Someone made a comment that breaking halakha = sin. And while I can think of very many halakhot that I agree with this idea that breaking the halakha is de facto a sin. But there are other halakhot, halakhot that many of us don't even keep anymore. Halakhot about which shoe to put on first. Halakhot that only appear in the last few hundred years by all accounts and we're not followed before, did all prior Jews sin for not having followed it before it became common practice?

So is breaking any halakha regardless of content, practice or age/history always a sin? If so, why. If not, why not?

Someone made a comment on another of my answer that "breaking halakha = sin." And I've heard this kind of statement before, but never with any arguments or philosophy for why that is or how it works. And while I can think of very many halakhot that I would agree are sins if broken, there are also lots of caveats and nuance that make me think it's not so straight forward. As someone pointed out in the comments below, breaking Shabbat is a sin unless you are doing it to save a life.

The Torah has many categories of sin, and depending on what law you break or how you break it determines what kind of sin it is. Do these same sin categories exist with violating different kinds of halakhot? Or is it a matter of how you break the halakha that determines it's sin category?

And what about halakhot that don't seem to be moral in nature. If one puts on his shoe on the wrong foot first, has he sinned to the point that God will judge against them for it? If they put on shoes wrong every day for their life does that mean they will have thousands of sins racked against them on judgment day?