Sefer HaNer on Mesechet Bava Kamma
…Yosef ibn Migash, R’ Baruch Sefardi (RB”S),[17] R’ Yitzchok Ghiyyat, Rav Natan author of Sefer ha Aruch, Rashi,[18] Rambam,[19] as well as material of unknown authorship.[20] Further, a notable portion…
The Unusual Word Tzafufim in Pirkei Avos
…does not explain how we get the unusual word צפופים. Aruch says it simply means “crowded” (דחוקים) as we translated it above. He brings two other examples in Rabbinic literature…
Twenty-Five Years at the Valmadonna Trust Library
…mystified us for years by locating another copy. For many years I tried to find the first 10 pages of a Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, di Gara, Venice 1574 for…
The Vanishing Note: Devorah, Women Dayanim, and a Missing הערה in Hilchos Dayyanus
…the reader trace each halachah through to its home in the Shulchan Aruch. The Beis Yosef is printed with a helpful apparatus of letters cross-referencing the relevant passages in the…
A Gift for Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulay: On R. Yaakov Shimshon Senigallia, author of the Machshirei Pischa haggada, and his relationship with Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulay,‘the Chida’.
…of the Shulchan Aruch, and should not be confused with the similarly named work by R. Avraham David Wahrman of Butchatch, whose own Eshel Avraham, found in the back of…
The American Yekkes
…pointed out, “Extensive chapters in the Shulchan Aruch stress the vital importance of cleanliness, order, and dignity in the Synagogue. Thus, these aspects in themselves have little to do with…
Rabbi Chaim Volozhin’s Motivation to Write Nefesh HaChaim
…sanctioned any form of Halachic compromise, as he is after all the author of the widely respected and accepted Halachic work, the Shulchan Aruch HaRav.[17] The underlying principle guiding R….
Blessed art Thou, O Lord, our God, ruler of the universe, for having not made me Rabbi Yitzchak Adlerstein[1]: Traditional Orthodoxy at a Crossroads
…my youth, I would ask my grandmother any question about kashrus in the kitchen. She would always answer correctly, though what she knew of the Shulchan Aruch can be summed…
Is there a rotten apple in the Tu-BeShevat Fruit Basket?
…source. See Brodt Halachic Commentaries to the Shulchan Aruch on Orach Chayim from Ashkenaz and Poland in the Seventeenth Century (PHD Bar Ilan 2015), pp. 68-69. The Mekor Chaim in…
Easing the Donkey’s Burden: Nitkatnu Hadorot or Nitgadlu?
…deterioration in Torah knowledge of successive generations as due to many factors including lack of spiritual breadth and lack of studiousness. [3] Ba’er Heytev, Shulchan Aruch, O.H. 558:3 [4] Shulchan…
A Review of Parashas Hamelech – Al Mitzvas Hakhel, by Rabbi Moshe Parnes
…the sefer is divided into three parts: The primary text is written in the style of a Shulchan Aruch with short, anonymous pronouncements given in the form of chapters (simanim)…
Bein hashemashot: A Reevaluation of the Texts Part III
…many if not almost all later rishonim, particular those following Ramban, adhere to 22.5 minutes. Interestingly, by the time of the Shulchan Aruch most authorities are united around 18 minutes,…
Barukh Dayan Ha-Emet. Rabbi Prof. Mordechai (ben Shamshon) Breuer (1921-2007)
Barukh Dayan Ha-Emet. Rabbi Prof. Mordechai (ben Shamshon) Breuer (also here), scion of the prominent German rabbinical family and world expert on Tanakh and on the Aleppo Codex, has passed…
Picturing Pandemic Prayer
…of healing and Your healing is truth. Because it is not the way of people to heal, but they have become accustomed. This passage has been codified in Shulchan Arukh,[11]…
Gettting Kabbalah Customs Wrong, Removing Teffilin on Hol HaMoad
…his Eliyahu Rabba and Zuta quotes R. Fano and agrees that one should not remove them right before mussaf. R. Karo in Shulchan Orakh just states that one shouldn’t wear…