Summary of Jordan Penkower on reading Zekher or Zeikher Amalek
…Ha-Cohen, otherwise known as the Hafetz Hayyim, came out with his Mishnah Berurah on the Shulhan Arukh. Since the special reading of Parshat Zakhor is a command from the Torah,…
New Book on Rabbinic Authority
…extends this prohibition against arguing against earlier ones and says this is applicable to the pronouncements of the Shulhan Arukh and the Rama. He appears to be unaware that R….
Bridging the Kabbalistic Gap Nefesh HaTzimtzum by Avinoam Fraenkel reviewed by Bezalel Naor
…and the Nefesh ha-Hayyim (the “Shulhan ‘Arukh” of Mitnagdic ideology), then we will have dissolved any continuing animus between Hasidim and Mitnagdim, and “Shalom ‘al Yisrael” (Peace to Israel). This…
Marc B. Shapiro – Forgery and the Halakhic Process, part 3
…One example of the latter is the Kitzur Shulhan Arukh. When I was young everyone seemed to study it. It has been reprinted numerous times and also translated into many…
Minhagim Books No. 1
…explains a rather cryptic passage in the Tashbetz as offering a totally new rational for why some people switch the word b’Fie (Bet-Peh-Yud) in Barukh She’amar to b’Feh (Bet-Peh-Hey). According…
Rabbi Steinman and the Messiah, part 3
…siyum upon completing the Shulhan Arukh for the seven hundredth time. [18] File 8564/4, new call no.: 000i8nt. The file can be seen here. [19] Is this indeed the general…
The Birkhat ha-Mazon as an Early Modern Supplementary Prayerbook
…Shulhan Arukh … and has become too cumbersome to be carried into the synagogue, the present publisher, with a pure heart, decided to print the siddur in two volumes, the…
The Animals
…less respect to the animal world. R. Moshe Isserles, in his commentary on Shulhan Arukh, states “Anything that is necessary for health, or for anything else there is no prohibition…
Apostates and More, Part 2
Apostates and More, Part 2 Marc B. Shapiro Continued from here 1. Another apostate was Rabbi Nehemiah ben Jacob ha-Kohen of Ferrara, who was an important supporter of R. Moses…
Lighting Shabbat Candles in Jerusalem 40 Minutes Before Sunset
…by the period between sunrise and sunset. This contentious topic is not pursued further. [4] Multiple comments on different sections of the Shulḥan Arukh strongly imply support for 90 minutes; some…
The Medical Training and Yet Another (Previously Unknown) Legacy of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, zt”l
…on to cite only two sources. The citations relate to the passage in Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh De’ah #339 regarding the treatment of a ‘gosses’, one whose death is imminent. Yet…
A New Book Collecting Commentaries on Targum Yonason
…Further, a index which includes Tanakh, Shas, Midrash, and Shulhan Arukh, is included as well. All of this is printed on nice paper in clear text. The Targum is included…
Midrash Lekah Tov, part Deux
…by this same Makhon where they reprinted and reset the type of some important unavailable works on the Shulhan Arukh, including R. Chaim Buchner’s Or Chadash, Nachlat Tzvi, and Olat…
New Writings from R Kook Part 1 by Marc B. Shapiro
…was indeed a real slave. See Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh Deah 158:1, where R. Moses Isserles writes: מותר היה לנסות רפואה בעבד כנעני אם תועיל P. 11: “Returning an escaped slave…
Antoninus, R. Moses Kunitz, and Iggerot Malkhei Rabbanan
…note to Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim 229. R. Kunitz’s first volume of responsa, Ha-Metzaref, vol. 1, no. 20, contains a letter from R. Nathan Adler, which I believe is the…