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Shulchan Aruch HaRav (Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
: "Code of Jewish Law
Halakha

Halakha ? also Hebrew transliteration Halocho and Halacha ? is the collective body of Judaism religious law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions....
 by the Rabbi
Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
"; also Shulkhan Arukh HaRav) is a codification
Halakha

Halakha ? also Hebrew transliteration Halocho and Halacha ? is the collective body of Judaism religious law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions....
 of halakha
Halakha

Halakha ? also Hebrew transliteration Halocho and Halacha ? is the collective body of Judaism religious law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions....
 by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi
Shneur Zalman of Liadi

Shneur Zalman of Liadi , was an Orthodox Judaism Rabbi, and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad Lubavitch, a branch of Hasidic Judaism, then based in Liadi, Imperial Russia....
, known during his lifetime as HaRav ("The Rabbi") and after his lifetime as the Alter Rebbe (Old Rebbe).

At a young age, Rabbi Shneur Zalman was asked by his teacher, Rabbi Dovber of Mezeritch
Dovber of Mezeritch

Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch was a disciple of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the founder of Hasidic Judaism, and largely seen as his successor. Rabbi Dov Ber is regarded as the first proponent and exponent of Hasidism and one of its most important propagators....
 to recodify the Shulchan Aruch
Shulchan Aruch

The Shulchan Aruch is a codification, or written manual, of halacha , composed by Rabbi Yosef Karo in the 16th century. Together with its commentaries, it is considered the most authoritative compilation of halakha since the Talmud....
 of Rabbi Yosef Karo
Yosef Karo

Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Caro, or Qaro, was author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Shulchan Aruch, which is still authoritative for Orthodox Jewry....
 - incorporating commentaries on that work
Shulchan Aruch

The Shulchan Aruch is a codification, or written manual, of halacha , composed by Rabbi Yosef Karo in the 16th century. Together with its commentaries, it is considered the most authoritative compilation of halakha since the Talmud....
, and subsequent responsa
Responsa

Responsa comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them....
 - so that laymen would be able to study Jewish law
Halakha

Halakha ? also Hebrew transliteration Halocho and Halacha ? is the collective body of Judaism religious law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions....
.






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Shulchan Aruch HaRav (Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
: "Code of Jewish Law
Halakha

Halakha ? also Hebrew transliteration Halocho and Halacha ? is the collective body of Judaism religious law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions....
 by the Rabbi
Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
"; also Shulkhan Arukh HaRav) is a codification
Halakha

Halakha ? also Hebrew transliteration Halocho and Halacha ? is the collective body of Judaism religious law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions....
 of halakha
Halakha

Halakha ? also Hebrew transliteration Halocho and Halacha ? is the collective body of Judaism religious law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions....
 by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi
Shneur Zalman of Liadi

Shneur Zalman of Liadi , was an Orthodox Judaism Rabbi, and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad Lubavitch, a branch of Hasidic Judaism, then based in Liadi, Imperial Russia....
, known during his lifetime as HaRav ("The Rabbi") and after his lifetime as the Alter Rebbe (Old Rebbe).

At a young age, Rabbi Shneur Zalman was asked by his teacher, Rabbi Dovber of Mezeritch
Dovber of Mezeritch

Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch was a disciple of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the founder of Hasidic Judaism, and largely seen as his successor. Rabbi Dov Ber is regarded as the first proponent and exponent of Hasidism and one of its most important propagators....
 to recodify the Shulchan Aruch
Shulchan Aruch

The Shulchan Aruch is a codification, or written manual, of halacha , composed by Rabbi Yosef Karo in the 16th century. Together with its commentaries, it is considered the most authoritative compilation of halakha since the Talmud....
 of Rabbi Yosef Karo
Yosef Karo

Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Caro, or Qaro, was author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Shulchan Aruch, which is still authoritative for Orthodox Jewry....
 - incorporating commentaries on that work
Shulchan Aruch

The Shulchan Aruch is a codification, or written manual, of halacha , composed by Rabbi Yosef Karo in the 16th century. Together with its commentaries, it is considered the most authoritative compilation of halakha since the Talmud....
, and subsequent responsa
Responsa

Responsa comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them....
 - so that laymen would be able to study Jewish law
Halakha

Halakha ? also Hebrew transliteration Halocho and Halacha ? is the collective body of Judaism religious law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions....
. The work thus states the decided
Posek

Posek is the term in Halakha for "decider"?a legal scholar who decides the Halakha in cases of law where previous authorities are inconclusive....
 halakha
Halakha

Halakha ? also Hebrew transliteration Halocho and Halacha ? is the collective body of Judaism religious law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions....
, as well as the underlying reasoning.

The Shulchan Aruch HaRav is today used by Hasidim
Hasidic Judaism

Hasidic Judaism is a type of Orthodox Judaism or Haredi Judaism Orthodox Judaism religious movement. Some refer to Hasidic Judaism as Hasidism, and the adjective chasidic / hasidic applies....
 as their basis for daily practice. The work is considered authoritative throughout Judaism, and citations to it are found in respected non-Hasidic sources as well, such as the Mishnah Berurah
Mishnah Berurah

Mishnah Berurah is a work of halakha by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, better known as The Yisrael Meir Kagan . It is a commentary on Orach Chayim, the first section of the Shulchan Aruch , summarizing the opinions of the Acharonim on that work....
 and the Ben Ish Chai
Ben Ish Chai

Yosef Chaim was a leading Hakham , posek on Jewish law and Master Kabbalah. He is best known as author of the work of Halakha Ben Ish Chai , by which title he is also known....
. Shulchan Aruch HaRav is also one of three works on which Shlomo Ganzfried
Shlomo Ganzfried

Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi and posek best known as author of the work of Halakha , the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch , by which title he is also known....
 based his rulings
Posek

Posek is the term in Halakha for "decider"?a legal scholar who decides the Halakha in cases of law where previous authorities are inconclusive....
 in the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch

Kitzur Shulchan Aruch may refer to:#The famous work of that name by Shlomo Ganzfried#A similar Sephardic Judaism work entitled "Kitzur Shulchan Aruch" by Rabbi Raphael Baruch Toledano....
, the well-known precis of Jewish law
Halakha

Halakha ? also Hebrew transliteration Halocho and Halacha ? is the collective body of Judaism religious law, including biblical law and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions....
.

Although widely accepted, the work was originally limited in printings. Much of the text was lost in a fire in Lubavitch, and only parts of copies of the draft survived. Kehot Publication Society
Kehot Publication Society

Kehot Publication Society and Merkos Publications, the publishing divisions of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, were established in 1942 by the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn....
 (2002) has recently issued a Bilingual Edition; in this work notations appear when Rabbi Shneur Zalman's rulings are at variance with those in Yosef Karo's Shulchan Aruch.

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