<span style="font-size: 130%;">Dear Readers,</span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br><span style="font-size: 130%;">I have just completed reading the Biography of Rabi Samson Raphael Hirsch. </span><span style="font-size: 130%;">Apparrently Rabbiner Hirsch bemoaned the fact that the Shulchan Aruch[1] was in 4 parts and Thereby people were not being holistic in that they neglected vast tracts of Hosehn Mishpat etc, in their behavior.</span><br>
<br><span style="font-size: 130%;">While the Mishna Brura pointedly commented on ONLY Orach Haim because he felt that this was the primary legal text for Jewish People [see hakdamah to the Mishna Brura.] [2]</span><br><br>
<span style="font-size: 130%;">There you have it in a nutshell. If you ever meet Jews who are meticulously observant in their observance of Davening, Shabbos and Pesach, - whilst also being boorish, dishonest, and downright sleeezy in business - they are ;probably following the Mishna Brura.<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 130%;">OTOH, if you meet well-rounded people who observe only the basics of Halachah, but are essentially honest, straightforward [glatt yosher] - then they probably pasken like Rabbiner Hirsch! </span> <br>
</div><font size="2"><br></font><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><font size="2">Notes:<br>[1] Although it is popular to attibute this arrangemnt tot he Shulchan Aruchr - It was actually the Tur who subdivid his work in 4 [actually 4 majors with Orahc Haim sub-divided into 3] and into the the simanin later used by R. Y. Karoet. al.<br>
</font><span style="font-size: 130%;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 100%;">[2] Ironically the MB himself was a Ba'al Musar and would probably "rue the day" that Jews went off in this mis-direction! </span></font><br>
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Posted By Rabbi Richard Wolpoe to <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/2008/02/rabbiner-hirsch-and-mishna-brura.html" target="_blank">NishmaBlog</a> at 2/02/2008 10:12:00 PM</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>
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