[Avodah] Chronology: Aruch Hashulchan and Mishne Brurah

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 10:37:09PM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
: 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.

MB publication dates (acc "The Chafetz Chaim", pg 603, by R Moshe M
Yoshor):
    vol 4:  1884
    vol 1:  1886
    vol 2:  1891
    vol 3:  1898
    vol 5:  1902
    vol 6:  1906 (19 Marcheshvan 5667, 7 Nov)

So, that would give the AhS a 22 year window in which to complete
OC while still finishing first.

The AhS was published qunterus by qunterus, and collected into
book-length volumes by his daughter. The qunterusin came out from
1884-1893.

So, some of the AhS did come out after the MB. Perhaps even some of
its OC.

RYH cited himself (Benei Banim 2:8) in an earlier iteration. He said
his grandfather RYEHenkin held the AhS was the more authoritative seifer
of pesaq, giving a number of reasons. One was that nearly all of the AhS
post-dates the MB.

Which is really all I meant. I just didn't bother with the "nearly all"
for what was a tangent.

BTW, RYEH's other reasons:
2- The AhS will cite the MB before giving his own pesaq when he knows he
is being choleiq.
3- It covers the entire SA. (Again, "nearly all".)
4- He takes accepted practice into account.
5- RYME was a practicing rav, who had a qehillah and more hands-on
   experience in halakhah lemaaseh.

(Interestingly, he does not cite RSMandel's reason: The MB tells you what
it's for -- to help posqim who might not own all the latest acharonim.
The CC doesn't say he is out to provide pesaq itself.)

GCT!
-Micha

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