Codification of Jewish Law on the Cusp of Modernity

For more than four centuries, Jewish life has been based on a code of law written by Joseph Caro, his Shulḥan `aruk [''set table'']. The work was an immediate best-seller because it presented the law in a clear and concise format. Caro''s work, however, was methodologically problematic and was widely criticized in the first generations after its publication. In this volume, Edward Fram examines Ca...