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Shabbat observance in a concise code of law

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Responding to a need of our generation, the “Concise Code of Jewish Law: A Guide to the Observance of Shabbat” is a modern and up-to-date work of halachah lema’aseh, presented in a compact user-friendly format. The main text is an adaptation of classic sources of halachah, loosely following the order of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, supplemented by notes which explore issues in greater depth and address a wide variety of contemporary applications.

First published a generation ago by Rabbi Gersion Appel, this edition, published by OU Press in conjunction with Maggid, has been updated by Rabbi Daniel Goldstein, in style as well as in substance, to address new technological developments and the opinions of recent poskim.

Unique among English halachic works in its breadth of sources, Concise Code includes the halachic decisions of classic works such as the Chayei Adam, Mishnah Berurah and Aruch Hashulchan, in addition to the rulings of the greatest poskim from the recent past, such as Rav Moshe Feinstein, Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and leading poskim of our own day, such as Rav Nachum Rabinovitch, Rav Hershel Schacter and Rav Mordechai Willig, and many more great poskim of the past and present.

Concise Code is a perfect text for students, as well as all those interested in enhancing their observance of halachah and acquiring greater knowledge about the intricacies of practical halachah in our time.

Rabbi Dr. Gersion Appel, z”l,  a renowned scholar, educator and author, had a distinguished academic career at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, where he chaired the Jewish Studies and Philosophy departments.

Rabbi Daniel Goldstein is the Rav Midrasha at Midreshet Amit in Jerusalem. Prior to his aliyah in 2007, he served as rabbi of Kingsway Jewish Center.