Category: Halakhah

שלחן ערוך (“The Set Table”) – A code of Jewish law, written in 1563 by R. Yosef Karo, a Sefardi rabbi, which became accepted as authoritative and normative with the addition of glosses incorporating Ashkenazi practice by Rema. Shulchan ‘Arukh is actually a summary of Karo’s important, and much larger, halakhic work, the Beit Yosef….