Mitzvot Timeline

By Gfried
  • Period: Jan 1, 1135 to Jan 1, 1204

    Ram Bam

  • Period: Jan 1, 1170 to Jan 1, 1180

    Mishna Torah

  • Period: Jan 1, 1270 to Jan 1, 1340

    Tur

  • Period: Jan 1, 1488 to Jan 1, 1575

    Rabbi Yosef Caro

    Wrote the Shulchan Aruch
  • Period: Jan 1, 1530 to Jan 1, 1572

    Rabbi Moshe Isserlis

    wrote the Mappah
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    Taz

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    Sach

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    Magen Avraham

    Real name is Abraham Abele Gombiner. He was a rabbi, Talmudist, and a leading religious authority of the Jewish community in Poland. His parents were unfortunately killed and thus he moved to Leszno to study with his relative Jacob Isaac Gombiner. He is known for his commentary in the Magen Avraham on the Orach Chayim.
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    Vilna Gaon

    Actual name is Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer, also known as the Gra (Gaon Rabbenu Eliyahu). He was a talmudist, halachist, and kabbalist. He was one of the most influential Rabbis in history and certainly one of the most well-known. He was very smart and tons of people looked up to him.
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    Kitzur Shulchan Aruch

    It is written by Shlomo Ganzfried. It is a summary of the Shulchan Aruch by Yosef Caro. To determine a ruling, Ganzfried based his decisions on three halakhic authorities: Rabbi Yaakov Lorberbaum; Rabbi Shneur Zalman, Chabad Lubavitch, and Rabbi Abraham Danzig. If there ever was a disagreement, he would base his deacons off majority rules. It very popular after and is still today due to its simplicity of Jewish law and other related manors.
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    Aruch Hashulchan

    Transcribed by Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epsteien
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    Mishna Berurah

    written by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan.It is a code of Jewish Religious law or it is halachas. It was authored by the great Maimonides. It consists of fourteen books, subdivided into sections, chapters, and paragraphs. It’s intended to provide a satisfactory and complete statement of Oral Law, so that one who has mastered first the Written Torah and then the Mishneh Torah would be in no need of any other book.