THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Yeshiva U. Press, Ktav Print Judaism's 'Concise Code' in New Translation.
By ALLEN A. WARSEN
"Judaism requires a total
commitment to Torah as the
divine blueprir t for a life of
holiness in the service of
God and of human concern
for fellow man."
The above quotation is
from "The Concise Code of
Jewish Law," compiled from
.
"Kitzur Shulkhan Arukh
and Traditional Sources" by
Rabbi Gersion Appel, and
published by Ktav and
Yeshiva University Press.
The "Concise Code" con-
sists of an introduction and
halakhic annotations by
Rabbi Appel and four parts
of textual material. The
volume, newly translated
by Rabbi Appel, had been
translated previously by
Gerald Friedlander in 1915
and Hyman E. Goldin in
1918. •
The Shulkhan Arukh
was composed in the 16th
Century by Rabbi Joseph
Karo, the author of "Beit
Joseph" and "Maggid
Mesharim."
Solomon
Rabbi
Ganzfried, who abridged
the Shulkhan Arukh, was •
born in Uzhorod, Czechos-
lovakia, in 1804 and died
there in 1886. He served as
rabbi in Brezovica and in
his native town.
Rabbi Appel's introduc- Judaism."
tion includes, inter alia, ex-
The Taryag (613) mitzvot
planations about the impor- (religious obligations) of
tance of tefilin (phylac- which the Shulkhan Arukh
teries) and the mezuza. is composed are intended to
Both consist of cases con- regulate the life of a Jew
taining parchments in- from cradle to grave.
scribed with biblical pas-
He that searcheth for evil,
sages symbolizing "the fun-
damental doctrines of it shall come unto him.
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