Schneur Zalman of Liadi. Shulchan Aruch - Orach Chaim

(CHASSIDISM).

Yehudah and Israel Jaffe

Kopyst

1816

FIRST EDITION. A fine, wide-margined copy

Vinograd, Kopyst 58; Y. Mondschein, Siphrei Ha’Halacha shel Admo”r HaZaken (1984) pp. 38-39

First Edition of the Shulchan Aruch HaRav. Exceptionally Scarce. A Fine Copy with Uncut, Original Wide-Margins. R. Dov Baer, the Maggid of Mehzritch, entrusted his disciple R. Schneur Zalman (the Alter Rebbe), with the task of preparing a "new" Shulchan Aruch with clear, concise explanations. The Shulchan Aruch HaRav states the decided halacha, as well as the underlying reasoning and grew to become authoritative for all Chassidim. Citations to the work are also found in non-Hasidic sources - the Mishnah Berurah, relied upon by Lithuanian Jews and the Ben Ish Chai, by Sephardic Jews. R. Shneur Zalman is also one of three halachic authorities upon whom R. Shlomo Ganzfried based his Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. See S. Y. Zevin, Sopherim VeSepharim, Vol. III for an extensive essay on the importance of the Shulchan Aruch HaRav and the Kuntrass Achron