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Kitzur Shulchan Aruch

קִצּוּר שֻׁלְחָן עָרוּךְ

By Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried

Hebrew text: Torat Emet (vocalized), Public Domain.

About the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch on TorahSages

The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried (1804–1886), a dayan of Ungvar in Hungary, first printed there in 1864, is the halacha of a Jewish home in one volume following the simanim of the Shulchan Aruch for Orach Chayim and Yoreh Deyah — and states it plainly, without the sources and the debate. It was written for the householder with little time to learn, it spread quickly into homes and schools across the Ashkenazi world, and it is learned siman by siman to this day. TorahSages has the 221 simanim of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch in full.