Aruch Hashulchan

by R. Gidon Rothstein What the Toil of Torah Secures, and Avoids: Sermons of the Aruch HaShulchan, Week 5, Sermon 15 R. Epstein’s sermons are rich and discursive, so that it hasn’t been until I’ve been presenting them that I’ve seen that in fact he sticks to central themes. Until now, that was the question of money and earning a ...

by R. Gidon Rothstein Poverty and Exile as Prelude to Wealth: Sermons of the Aruch HaShulchan, Week 4, Sermon 23 We generally see nega’im, the afflictions of tzara’at, as negatives, punishments for some sin. But Rashi to Vayikra 14;34 records a case where a Midrash saw a nega as having a positive outcome. Reacting to the verse’s saying Hashem would ...

by R. Gidon Rothstein Hashem as the Source of the Jewish People’s Livelihood: Sermons of the Aruch HaShulchan, Week Three, Sermon 18 In this series discussing sermons of the Aruch HaShulchan, last time I noted that he saw poverty as among the most prominent sufferings of exile. In that light, it seemed appropriate to take up sermons that deal most ...

by R. Gidon Rothstein Sermons of the Aruch HaShulchan, Week Two: Explaining the Sufferings of Exile As I noted last time, I have to fit 23 sermons into 21 weeks, and this week seems as good as any to combine two into one. That’s because two of the sermons deal with the sufferings of exile, trying to understand the possible ...

by R. Gidon Rothstein The Sermons of the Aruch HaShulcha, Sermon 14: Starting with Effective Remonstration In 1992, R. Dr. Simcha Fishbane, a professor of Jewish history at the Touro Graduate School of Jewish Studies, published a new volume of the still-incomplete Aruch haShulchan. It had the laws of nedarim, vows, as well as Derashot Kol Ben Levi, a book ...