Too little context. Is Halakha the name of a person or of something else? If something else, what kind of something else? A philosophy? A book?
“Halakha dictates while discounting individual emotional experience, and the Orthodox man acts.”
This could mean that some individual named Halkaha is dictating while at the same time, discounting individual emotional experience. Why someone would do two such things at the same time makes no sense to me. Perhaps Halakha is really “The Halakha”—some religious book that tells people how to live. Maybe it has an attitude that emotions don’t count. Only actions. I don’t know.
To tell the truth I could guess and guess, but I really have no way of making any sense out of that sentence. It is too far out of context.