<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Micha Berger</b> <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>My following RDLifshitz's preference for the AhS doesn't make me a<br>mimeticist. Rather, I'm following a text written by someone with a strong<br>belief in the authority of minhag. I'm not doing what I was raised to
<br>do because halakhah is related to as a culture.<br><br><br>Tir'u baTov!<br>-Micha</blockquote><div><br><br>re; AhS, As I've posted before, Litvisher Rabbanim including R. Dovid L , [as opposed to Roshei Yeshiva] AFAIK always favored AhS as THE poseik of his generation.
<br><br>The Doros in Lita go something like this:<br>Primary: <br><ol><li>R. Elchonon Spektor</li><li>AhS</li><li>R. Chaim Ozer</li></ol></div>Close Seconds:<br><ol><li>Beis Halevi,</li><li> his son R. Chaim Brisker</li><li>
Netziv <br></li><li>Others?<br></li></ol>In pre-WWII p'sak literature, how often is the MB quoted? For that matter how often is the Kitzur SA mentioned?<br><br>If popularity counts, certainly MB and KSA are amongst the top poskim of their times.
<br>OTOH, if you see the popularity of these texts as more about which is the better textbook over which states the correct p'sak then it would imply something else. [iow it would imply learn from them, but don't PASKEN from them!]
<br><br></div>Of the following 4 major codes which is the least user friendly?<br>Which is the most Halachically authoritative?<br><ol><li>Mishneh Torah</li><li>Arba Turim</li><li>ShulchanAruch-Mappa</li><li>Levush </li>
</ol> and FWIW What text did the MB himself use to teach basic Halachah?<br><br>One of my colleagues suggests using a Beis din of <br><ol><li>MB</li><li>AhS</li><li>Kaf hachayyim </li></ol>I think this idea makes a lot of sense.
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