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Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia II - Shulkhan Arukh - Shulkhan Arukh

Karo wrote the Shulkhan Arukh in his old age, for the benefit of those who did not possess the education necessary to understand the Beth Yosef. The arrangement of this work is the same as that adopted by Jacob ben Asher in his Arba'ah Turim, but more concise; nor are any authorities given. This book, which for centuries was, and essentially still is, "the code" of rabbinical Judaism for all ritual and legal questions that obtained after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, has a remarkable history. The author him ...

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Kabbalah - Origin of Jewish mysticism

Kabbalah - Mystic doctrines in Talmudic times

Kabbalah - Kabbalah of the early Middle Ages

Kabbalah - Lurianic Kabbalah in the Middle Ages

Kabbalah - Kabbalah of the Sefardim and Mizrahim

Kabbalah - Kabbalah of the Maharal

Kabbalah - The failure of Sabbatian mysticism

Kabbalah - Spread of Kabbalah during the 1700s

Kabbalah - The modern world

Kabbalah - Primary texts

Kabbalah - Theodicy: explanation for the existence of evil

Kabbalah - Kabbalistic understanding of God

Kabbalah - Sefirot

Kabbalah - A Greek Orthodox theological view

Kabbalah - The human soul in Kabbalah

Kabbalah - Foretelling the future

Kabbalah - Practical applications

Kabbalah - Textual antiquity of esoteric mysticism

Kabbalah - Gnosticism and Kabbalah

Kabbalah - Criticisms

Kabbalah - Dualism

Kabbalah - Debate about Kabbalah in Judaism

Kabbalah - Early critiques

Kabbalah - Within Conservative and Reform Judaism

Kabbalah - Kabbalah Centre

Kabbalah - Kabbalah in non-Jewish society

Kabbalah - Hermetic Kabbalah

Kabbalah - Fictional representations

Kabbalah - Kabbalah personalities

Kabbalah - Footnotes

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Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Ashkenazi Jews

Israel: app. 3.7 mil. [3] Europe: app. 1.7 mil. [4] Argentina: nn South Africa: nn Oceania: nn • Sephardi Jews • Mizrahi Jews • Other Jewish groups Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim (אַשְׁכֲּנָזִי אַשְׁכֲּנָזִים Standard Hebrew, Aškanazi, Aškanazim, Tiberian Hebrew, ʾAškănāzî, ʾAš ...

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Ashkenazi Jews - Origin of Ashkenazim

Ashkenazi Jews - From Roman Empire to Dark Ages

Ashkenazi Jews - Possible DNA Clues

Ashkenazi Jews - Ashkenazi Migrations throughout the High and Late Middle Ages

Ashkenazi Jews - Usage of the name

Ashkenazi Jews - Medieval references

Ashkenazi Jews - Customs laws and traditions

Ashkenazi Jews - Relationship to other Jews

Ashkenazi Jews - Population genetics

Ashkenazi Jews - Specific diseases

Ashkenazi Jews - IQ

Ashkenazi Jews - Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence

Ashkenazi Jews - Modern history

Ashkenazi Jews - Ashkenazi Jewry and the Holocaust

Ashkenazi Jews - Ashkenazi Chief Rabbis in the Yishuv and Israel

Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Asher ben Jehiel

Asher ben Jehiel (or Asher ben Yechiel) (1250 or 1259-1328) was an eminent rabbi and Talmudist best known for his abstract of Talmudic law. He is often referred to as Rabbenu Asher, “our Rabbi Asher” or by the Hebrew acronym for this title, the ROSH (literally "Head"). Asher ben Jehiel - Biography. The Rosh was born in western Germany and died in Toledo, Spain. His family was prominent for learning and piety, his father Jehiel was a Talmudist, and one of his ancestors was Rabbi Eli ...

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Asher ben Jehiel - Biography

Asher ben Jehiel - Works

Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Arukh HaShulkhan

The Arukh HaShulkhan is a work of Jewish scholarship, written by Yechiel Michel Epstein. The title "Arukh HaShulkhan" ("laying the table") is a clear allusion to the Shulkhan Arukh ("the set table"), the authoritative work of halakha on which it draws. In Arukh HaShulkhan, Epstein traces the origins of each law and custom to its source in the Torah or Talmud, states the view of the Rishonim (early, pre-1550 authorities), and arrives at a psak (decision) - often supporting his views with the wo ...

Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Arba'ah Turim

Arba'ah Turim (ארבעה טורים, Hebrew: "Four columns" - on the High Priest's breastplate), also abbreviated as Tur, is an important work of Jewish law, composed by Rabbi Yaakov ben Asher (Spain, 1270 -c.1340; also referred to as "Ba'al ha-Turim", "Master of the Tur"). "The Tur" is composed in four divisions ("Arba'ah Turim"); these are further organised by topic, by section (siman, pl. simanim) and by law (se'if, pl. se'ifim). The Arba'ah Turim: Orach ...

Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Akiva Eger

Rabbi Akiva Eger or Eiger (1761-1837), born in Eisenstadt,then in Hungary, was a Jewish scholar and influential halakhic decisor (posek). While his name is commonly spelled Eiger, his official name was Eger. He was born as Akiva Güns in Eisenstadt, Hungary. He was recognised as a child prodigy, and was educated first at the Mattersdorf Yeshiva and later under his uncle, Rabbi Wolf Eger, at the Breslau Yeshiva. Out of respect for his uncle he changed his surname to Eiger. He therefore shared th ...

Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Acharonim

Acharonim (אחרונים Hebrew - sing. Acharon) literally "the later ones", is a term used in Jewish law and history, to signify the leading Rabbis and Poskim living from roughly the 16th century to the present. The acharonim follow the Rishonim, the "first ones" - the rabbinic scholars between the 13th and the 16th century following the Geonim and preceding the Shulkhan Arukh. The publication of the Shulkhan Arukh thus marks the transition from the era of Rishonim to that of Acharonim. As Jewish law is hierarchic and precedent-based, the opinions of the Acharonim are valid insof ...

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Acharonim - Some Acharonim

Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Yosef Shalom Eliashiv

Yosef Shalom Eliashiv (יוסף שלום אלישיב), (b. 1910) is a Haredi rabbi who lives in Jerusalem, Israel. Well into his nineties, he is nevertheless lucid and active and remains the paramount leader of Israel's (Lithuanian) mitnagdim (non-Hasidic Haredi Ashkenazi Jews) who regard him as the posek ha-dor (Hebrew: "Decisor [of] the Generation"), the leading authority on Torah law, i.e. halakha, at the present time. He is a grandson of the famous kabbalist Rabbi Shalom Ben Hayim Haikel Eliashiv (Leshem) (18 ...

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Yosef Shalom Eliashiv - Work and influence

Yosef Shalom Eliashiv - Rulings

Yosef Shalom Eliashiv - Policy positions

Yosef Shalom Eliashiv - Footnotes

Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Yoreh De'ah

Yoreh De'ah is a section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of halakha (Jewish law), Arba'ah Turim. This section treats all aspects of Jewish law not pertinent to the Jewish calendar, finance, torts, marriage, divorce, or sexual conduct. (Nevertheless there exists occasional overlap into the excluded areas). Yoreh De'ah is therefore the most diversified area of Jewish law. Later, Rabbi Yosef Karo modeled the framework of his own compilation of practical Jewish law, the Shulkhan Arukh after the Arba'ah Turim. Many lat ...

Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Yoel Sirkis

Yoel Sirkis (1561-1640) was a rabbi and halakhist ("Authority on Jewish law") known to scholars of Judaism. He lived in central Europe and held rabbinical positions in Belz, Brest-Litovsk, and Kraków. His best-known written work is Bayit Chadash ("New House", a reference to Deuteronomy 22:8, abbreviated as Bach), a major commentary on the Arba'ah Turim. His responsa is known simply a ...

Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Yisrael Meir Kagan

Yisrael Meir (HaCohen) Kagan, also known to students of Judaism as the Chofetz Chaim, was a rabbi, Halakhist and ethicist, born in Zhetel, Poland on February 6, 1838, and died in Radin, Poland, September 15, 1933. His legal surname was "Poupko" but this is seldom used. He was one of the most influential rabbis within Orthodox Judaism during the late 19th and early 20th century taking a central leadership role in the World Agudath Israel movement in Eastern Europe. He is best known by the name of his first book, Chafet ...

Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Yosef Karo

Rabbi Yosef (Joseph) Ben Ephraim Karo is one of the most important leaders in the history of halakha (Jewish law). He was born in Spain or Portugal in 1488; he died at Safed (Tzefat), Israel, March 24, 1575. He is also known as HaMechaber, Hebrew for "the author [of the Shulkhan Arukh]", his most famous work; and as Maran Beth Yosef, "our master, [the author of] Beth Yosef". Yosef Karo - Biography. If his birthplace was Spain, his family probably left for Portugal a ...

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Yosef Karo - Biography

Yosef Karo - Authority recognized

Yosef Karo - Works

Yosef Karo - Maggid Mesharim

Yosef Karo - Karo's Characteristics

Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Yeshiva

Yeshiva or yeshivah (Hebrew: ישיבה pl. yeshivot or yeshivos) is an institution for Torah study and the study of Talmud primarily within Orthodox Judaism attended by males. Females usually attend Bais Yaakov schools. Yeshiva - History. See also Torah study Yeshiva - Pre-1800s. Traditionally, every town rabbi had the right to maintain a number of full-time or part-time pupils in the town's study hall (beis midra ...

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Yeshiva - History

Yeshiva - Pre-1800s

Yeshiva - Chaim Volozhin

Yeshiva - Types of yeshivot

Yeshiva - Prominent yeshivot

Yeshiva - In the United States

Yeshiva - In Israel

Yeshiva - Academic year

Yeshiva - Typical schedule

Yeshiva - Method of study

Yeshiva - Talmud study

Yeshiva - Jewish law

Yeshiva - Ethics

Yeshiva - Weekly Torah portion

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Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Basic Laws of Israel

Land of Israel Districts · Cities · Transportation Dead Sea · Red Sea · Sea of Galilee Mediterranean · Negev · Judea · Samaria Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · Haifa Zionism · Timeline ·Aliyah · Herzl Balfour · Mandate · 1947 UN Plan Independence · Austerity · Ma'abarot Lavon Affair · Eichmann Trial 1948 War · 1949 Armistice · Suez War Six-Day War · Attrition War Yom Kippur War · Lebanon War Peace treaties with: Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan Timeline · Peace process · Peace camp 1st Inti ...

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Basic Laws of Israel - List of Basic Laws of Israel

Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Beth din

A beth din (בית דין, Hebrew: "house of judgment", plural battei din) is a rabbinical court of Judaism. In ancient times, it was the building block of the legal system in the Land of Israel. Today, it is invested with legal powers in a number of religious matters, both in Israel and in Jewish communities throughout the world, where their judgments hold varying degrees of authority (depending upon the jurisdiction and subject matter) in matters specifically germane to Jewish religious life. Beth din - Antiquit ...

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Beth din - Antiquity

Beth din - Present situation

Beth din - Officers of a Beth Din

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Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Avraham Danzig

Rabbi Avraham Danzig (1748-1820) was a decisor and codifier, best known as the author of the works of Jewish law Chayei Adam and Chochmat Adam; he is sometimes referred to as "the Chayei Adam". Avraham Danzig - Biography. Danzig was born in Gdańsk, Poland (then known as Danzig, hence his name), into a prominent Rabbinic family. When he was fourteen his father sent him to study at the Prague yeshivah, after exacting a promise from him "that he would not mingle with the Modern ...

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Avraham Danzig - Biography

Avraham Danzig - Works

Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Modern Orthodox Judaism

Modern Orthodox Judaism (or Modern Orthodox, also known as Modern Orthodoxy and sometimes abbreviated as "MO") is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize traditional observance and values with the secular modern world. It is broadly defined as the effort to adapt Orthodox Judaism to modernity and to avoid the social and/or cultural isolation which livi ...

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Modern Orthodox Judaism - Philosophy

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Roots

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Torah Umadda

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Religious Zionism

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Comparison with other movements

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Haredi Judaism

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Neo-Orthodoxy

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Conservative Judaism

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Right and Left

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Modern forms of textual criticism

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Criticism

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Standards of observance

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Introduction of reforms

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Difficulties inherent

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Important figures

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Modern Orthodox advocacy groups

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Modern Orthodox Congregations

Modern Orthodox Judaism - Resources

Shulkhan Arukh: Encyclopedia - Halakha

Halakha (Hebrew: הלכה; also transliterated as Halakhah, Halacha, Halachah) is the collective corpus of Jewish rabbinic law, custom and tradition. Like the religious laws in many other cultures, Judaism classically drew no distinction in its laws between religious and non-religious life. Hence, Halakha guides not only religious practices and beliefs, but numerous aspects of day-to-day life. Historically, Halakha served many Jewish communities as an enforceable avenue of civil and religious law. In the mo ...