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How would you describe the difference between mitzvos and dinim?

How would you describe the difference between halachah and dinim?

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    As with most words, I would ask for context
    – Double AA ♦
    Commented Oct 29 at 23:29

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A mitzvah is a raw commandment or rabbinic enactment.

Din is a halachic category that something or someone falls in, such as "a Samaritan woman has the din of a Niddah". Or "Shlomo has the din of a mazik and has to pay damages."

Halacha is the accepted way of doing things. It is based on Mitzvah, oral law/interpretations, and customs. It's the polished mitzvah and can differ vastly from the raw mitzvah. For example, we have a mitzvah to cut off the hand of a woman who grabs a ballsack of two men who are fighting. The halacha is that she only pays a monetary fine.

Sometimes halacha refers to a detail of another halacha.

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