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Sep 12, 1135
Mishna Torah
Rambam is the author, 1135 -1204 - His father and his younger brother David, and he went to Morocco- In 1165 he visited the Land of Egypt and moved to Alexandria, Egypt - He later moved to Old Cairo, where he lived until he died -
Period: Sep 12, 1135 to
Over The Years
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Sep 12, 1270
Tur
Rabbi Jacob ben Asher wrote it c. 1270 - c. 1343 Unlike Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, the Arba'ah Turim covers only those areas of Jewish religious law that were in force in the author's time. -
Sep 12, 1488
Beit Yosef
Rabbi Joseph Caro (author of the Kesef Mishneh and Shulhan 'Arukh) wrote it 1488 to 1575. He chose to compose it as a commentary on Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's Tur, rather than as a separate work, or on Maimonides' code, because the Tur had already done some of the preliminary labour of collecting and comparing the opinions of the leading medieval authorities. -
Sep 12, 1488
Shulchan Aruch
Rabbi Joseph Caro, 1488 to 1575, The Shulhan Arukh follows the order of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's Tur. It is divided up into the same four main topics, each of which is divided into numbered paragraphs. The Shulhan Arukh has an additional subdivision into numbered sub-paragraphs. -
Taz
David ha-Levi Segal (c. 1586 – 20 February 1667), also known as the Turei Zahav after the title of his significant halakhic commentary on the Shulchan Aruch, was one of the greatest Polish rabbinical authorities. Most of Segal's works were published long after his death.The Turei Zahav is an indispensable commentary on Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chayim) -
The Vilna Gaon
Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer known as the Vilna Gaon (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. The "Gra" was very precise in the wording of his commentaries, because he maintained that he was obligated by Torah Law that only the " Torah shebichtav" (the written law) is permitted to be written down - the rest of " Torah shel ba'al peh" (oral law) cannot be, unless circumstan -
Aruch Hashulchan
Restates Materials went over in the shulchan aruch. It goes through it chapter by chapter. gathered and transcribed by the famous Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829–1908). -
Mishna Berura
The Mishna Berurah was written by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan (1838-1933) (AKA Chofetz Chaim) his father died. His mother remarried later on and moved to Radin. The Mishnah Berura was published in 1876. -
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch
Ganzfried remained in the office of Dayan until his death, July 30, 1886. Over the years, It has been updated by a number of authors to include those halachos applicable in Israel and the modern day.