A Response to Dr. Shapiro: A Defense of the Torah Temimah
…pity that Mondshine didn’t read Zevin’s K’sav Horaah (printed in the new Kitvei Aruch Ha-Shulchan). If he had he would have seen that R’ Zevin never met the Aruch HaShulchan….
On the Times Commonly Presented for Birkat HaL’vana: Part 2
…a disputant (I have not edited any of his writing): In the Shulkhan Arukh (chapter 426 paragraph 3) it was ruled that one has to wait till seven days have…
Fixing a Typesetting Error in Order to Understand The View of the Mishnah Berurah on Women Wearing Tefillin
…that we acquiesce to one who chooses to do so. (Note that Aruch Hashulchan argues in OC 37:4 and objects to a cheresh wearing tefillin, but only because he cannot image such a…
On the History and Development of Nirtza
…Hashulchan endorsed Maharshal unequivocally. This is somewhat of a departure from what we would expect based on Dr. Soloveitchik’s presentation in “Rupture and Reconstruction”, in which the Aruch Hashulchan typically…
The Vilna Gaon, Part 1: How Modern Was He?
…Gaon wrote a commentary on the Shulhan Arukh. Furthermore, this commentary was designed to show the earlier rabbinic sources upon which the Shulhan Arukh‘s laws were based. It is true that there are…
Review of Rav Zvi Hirsch Grodzinsky’s Taharas Yisroel
…for the laws through detailed conceptual analysis of its sources. In the center of the page is the halacha, which is usually a direct quotation from Shulchan Aruch, Rama, or…
Tracing the History of Shavuos Night Learning
…this in my doctorate Halachic Commentaries to the Shulchan Aruch on Orach Chayim from Ashkenaz and Poland in the Seventeenth Century.[3] This post contains important additions to some of the…
Engaged Couples, צעירים, and More
…post-talmudic gezerot. I mention this now, after Passover [this post was written a few weeks ago], since those who reviewed the laws of Pesach would have seen Shulhan Arukh 453:5…
To Censor or Not to Censor, that is the Question
…urge to suppress contrary halakhic rulings was rejected.[1] R. Yehiel Mikhel Halevi Epstein of Novogrudok is most well-known for his pseudo commentary on the Shulkhan Orakh, Orakh ha-Shulhan. [2] In…
There is No Bracha on an Eclipse
…OC 4:20:27, but find the view of the Aruch Hashulchan OC 202:3 more analytically compelling. c. Both the suggestions of Rabbi Chaim David Ha-Levi (Responsa Aseh Lecha Rav, 150) that…
There is No Bracha on an Eclipse
…Iggrot Moshe OC 4:20:27, but find the view of the Aruch Hashulchan OC 202:3 more analytically compelling. c. Both the suggestions of Rabbi Chaim David Ha-Levi (Responsa Aseh Lecha Rav,…
Visiting Zoos in Halacha
…Rav Elyashiv,[7] among others. However, the Shulchan Shlomo [8] and Aruch Hashulchan argue and are of the opinion that one can make the brachah again on this same animal after…
An enigmatic Pseudo-Shklov edition of Barukh She’amar
An enigmatic Pseudo-Shklov edition of Barukh She’amar[1] By Marvin J. Heller A title-page describing the work as an 1820 Shklov press publication is indicative of an enigmatic pseudo-edition of Baruch…
Review – New Volume of Peskei Teshuvos on Mishna Berurah
…Arukh Hashulhan and the other the Mishna Berurah. Each have their benefits (as will perhaps be discussed a different time) however, both were of great necessity as halacha is an…
Some Assorted Comments and a Selection from my Memoir, part 2
…of one b’racha in the positive (she’asani Yisrael) – basically, if you would say “She’asani Yisrael” then you couldn’t say “Shelo asani aved, isha”. The Aruch HaShulchan (46, yud) paskins…