[Avodah] Chronology: Aruch Hashulchan and Mishne Brurah

[Akiva Miller via Avodah]

In the thread "Mezonos Becomes HaMotzi", R' Micha Berger wrote:

> While RYME started writing AhS first, he started with CM. The
> MB was written before AhS OC, and is in fact cited in it.)

This is only partly accurate, as it leaves out some important details. I
would like to direct y'all's attention to
http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/faxes/AhSCitesMb.pdf

I became aware of this list when R' Moshe Feldman posted the following to
Areivim in June 2002:

> ... Micha has graciously posted a list of 32 places (with
> some info about each) where the AhS comments on the MB. See
> <http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/faxes/AhSCitesMb.pdf>
> Interestingly, they are in simanim 1-91 and in hil. Shabbos,
> not anywhere else. Simple explanation: If you look in into
> to Kol Kisvei CC, the some of the CC writes that the CC
> published the first chelek of MB and then decided to skip to
> hil. Shabbos because he felt a pressing need to get that out
> as soon as posible.
>
> ... the list ... was given to me by Larry Teitelman and he
> believes that the original author is Rabbi Yehuda Dolgin of
> L.A.

My reason for citing all this is as follows: RMB claims that "the MB was
written before AhS OC", but that is not accurate. The list does prove that
the AhS on Hilchos Shabbos was written after the MB on Hilchos Shabbos.

But the list also strongly suggests that Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein
either wrote the AhS on Hilchos Yom Tov *before* the MB on Hilchos Yom Tov
was published, or at least, he wrote it so soon afterwards that he did not
have enough opportunity to quote and comment on it. The list shows clearly
that if the MB on Hilchos Yom Tov *had* been available, then RYME surely
would have mentioned it here and there.

["Hilchos Yom Tov" is obviously an example, applicable to all the sections
that aren't on that list.]

Akiva Miller
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