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Aug 29, 1169
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Sorry Rav please excuse the incorrect months as i could only figure out how to change the year not months, so once again please excuse the months, but not the years
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Period: Aug 29, 1170 to Aug 29, 1180
Mishnah Torah
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. -
Period: Aug 29, 1270 to Aug 29, 1340
Tur
It was composed by Yaakov ben Asher and it is an important Halachik code. The Tur is composed of four parts and its division into chapters were adopted by the later code Shulchan Aruch. The Tur also means four rows. -
Period: Aug 29, 1275 to Aug 29, 1349
Beis Yosef
It is a book written by Rabbi Yosef Caro. It is a long, detailed commentary on the Arba'ah Turim. It is a very famous and popular book. -
Aug 29, 1563
Shulchan Aruch
It is also as the Code of Jewish Law. It is the most authoritative legal code of Judaism. It was created by Rabbi Yosef Caro but it was only published in Venice two years later. Thanks to the help of its commentaries, it is the most widely accepted compiled Jewish law ever. There are four main parts to it. 1) Orach Chayim 2) Yoreh De'ah 3) Even Ha'ezer 4) Choshen Mishpat -
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Taz
It is written by David HaLevi Segal. The Council of Four Lands declared that the authority of the Taz should be considered greater than that of the Shach, but unfortunately, later the Shach gained more and more in authority. He is known as one of the greatest writers/compilers ever. -
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Shach
Written by Rabbi Shabtai HaKohen and he was born Vilna. His rulings were considered authoritative by later Halchists. It was a commentary on the Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De'ah. His work was approved by one of the greatest Polish and Lithuanian scholars. It has been published by Yoreh De'ah. Rabbi Shabtai HaKohen frequently objected the decisions of his predecessors, and then had a whole new interpretation of the Talmudic law, which was disputably a better interpretation of the Talmudic law. -
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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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The 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
It restates chapter by chapter the Shulchan Aruch. It is written by Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein. The books goal is to be a clear, organized summary of each chapter of the Shulchan Aruch and its commentaries. It does have special emphasis on the positions of the Maimonides and Jerusalem Talmud. -
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Mishnah Berurah
It is a work of halachas, written by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, also known as the famous Chofetz Chaim. The Mishnah Berurah is a commentary on Orach Chayim, the first section of the Shulchan Aruch (which deals with laws of prayer, synagogue, Shabbat and holidays, and summarizing the opinions of the Acharonim)