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Sep 13, 1170
mishnah was written
it was a book written by rambam and it consists of 14 books broken up. -
Mar 3, 1270
Tur
Arba'ah Turim (Hebrew: אַרְבַּעָה טוּרִים), often called simply the Tur, is an important Halakhic code, composed by Yaakov ben Asher. The four-part structure of the Tur and its division into chapters (simanim) were adopted by the later code Shulchan Aruch. -
Apr 4, 1520
moshe isserles
Moses Isserles, also spelled Moshe Isserlis, (1520 - May 11, 1572 was an eminent Ashkenazic rabbi, talmudist, and posek, renowned for his fundamental work of Halakha (Jewish law), entitled ha-Mapah (lit., "the tablecloth"), an inline commentary on the Shulchan Aruch (lit. "the set table"), upon which his "great reputation as a halakist and codifier rests chiefly. -
Dec 16, 1565
shulchan aruch
The Shulchan Aruch also known as the Code of Jewish Law, is the most authoritative legal code of Judaism. It was authored in Safed, Ottoman Eyalet of Damascus, by Yosef Karo and published in Venice two years later. -
siftie kohen
The author of this commentary to Yoreh De'ah and Hoshen Mishpat was Rabbi Shabbetai Kohen who was originally from Vilna, but was forced to flee to Moravia in the wake of the terrible Chmielnicki massacres of. -
orach chaim
This detailed explanatory and critical commentary to 'Orah Hayyim was composed by Rabbi Abraham "Abeleh" Gombiner of Kalisz, Poland. The title means "Shield of Abraham," a phrase taken from the Jewish liturgy. -
vilna gaon
Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer or Elijah of Vilna and simply by his Hebrew acronym Gra ("Gaon Rabbenu Eliyahu") or Elijah Ben Solomon, (Vilnius April 23, 1720 – Vilnius October 9, 1797), was a Talmudist, halachist, kabbalist, and the foremost leader of non-hasidic Jewry of the past few centuries. -
kitzur shulchan aroch
written and invented by shlomo ganzfried and its hebrew meaning for a shortened version of the shulchan aruch -
Aruch shulchan
written by Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829–1908), the work attempts to be a clear, organized summary of the sources for each chapter of the Shulchan Arukh and its commentaries, with special emphasis on the positions of the Jerusalem Talmud and Maimonides.
