<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Micha Berger <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>You need more than a KSA to know what "unusual" means. It's not a good<br>
guide to knowing what issues are contraversial. But I would agree with<br>
the general point, that a few handbooks is sufficient for daily din.<br>
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Tir'u baTov!<br>
-Micha<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Tangentially [for men or women] <br>I would say that the MINIMUM substitute for truly understanding Halcha w/o Gmara would be the Tur and Beis Yosef [probably w/ Darchei Moshe - and Aruch Hashulchan helps, too.]<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>