The Concise Code of Jewish Law

"Responding to a need for our generation, The Concise Code of Jewish Law is a modern and up-to-date work of halachah lema’aseh, presented in a concise and 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. This volume on the laws of Shabbat is part of a projected four-volume series covering all areas of practical halachah. First published a generation ago by Rabbi Gersion Appel, this edition 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 R. Moshe Feinstein, R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and leading poskim of our own day, such as R. Nachum Rabinovitch, R. Hershel Schachter, and R. 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 re-nowned scholar, educator and author, pursued his Torah studies in Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Vodaath, and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, where he received his semichah. He graduated Yeshiva College and received a Doctor of Hebrew Literature degree from Yeshiva Univer¬sity’s Bernard Revel Graduate School and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Harvard University. Serving for many years as the rabbi of leading Or¬thodox congregations, Rabbi Appel also had a distinguished academic career at Yeshiva Univer¬sity’s Stern College for Women, where he chaired the Jewish Studies and Philosophy departments. Rabbi Appel was the author of several books on Jewish law and Jewish thought, including Sefer Ha-Neyar: A Thirteenth Century Code of Jewish Law; A Philosophy of Mitzvot: The Religious and Ethical Principles of Judaism, Their Roots in Biblical Law and the Judaic Oral Tradition; and The Concise Code of Jewish Law, Volume One: A Guide to Prayer and Religious Observance in the Daily Life of the Jew. "