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…
