Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Torah and Halachic Authority (3/12) Previous Document: Question 3.38: What is the Arba'ah Turim (The Tur, The Four Rows)? Next Document: Question 3.40: What is the Hamappah of Rabbi Moshe Isserles? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Answer: Rabbi Yosef Karo (1488 - 1575) made his greatest contribution to Jewish law by spending twenty years compiling an enormous halakhic work, the Beit Yosef. The Beit Yosef is a huge commentary on the Tur in which he clarifies the opinions of authorities who lived after the time of Rabbi Yaakov. However, a work was needed that would let a student determine Jewish law without having to wade through all of the voluminous and complex literature of the Talmud, the law codes and their commentaries. Rabbi Karo set out to solve this problem, and finally wrote The Shulkhan Arukh (literally, The Set Table) as a concise collection of the law brought in his larger work, the Beis Yosef. In writing the Shulkhan Arukh, Rabbi Yosef followed the chapter divisions of the Tur, although he innovated by breaking each section up into separate paragraphs for each law. User Contributions:Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Torah and Halachic Authority (3/12) Previous Document: Question 3.38: What is the Arba'ah Turim (The Tur, The Four Rows)? Next Document: Question 3.40: What is the Hamappah of Rabbi Moshe Isserles? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: SCJ FAQ Maintainer <maintainer@scjfaq.org>
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