THE LAWS OF SHABBAT is a clear, all-encompassing and easy-to-use balachic guide book, providing detailed understanding of the laws of Shabbat. These two volumes include: laws of Erev Shabbat, Kiddush, Havdalah, Shabbat meals, Teffilot of Shabbat, 39 melachot. Amirah LeAkum, Muktzeh, treating the ill on Shabbat, giving birth on Shabbat, among many other important and common balachot.
Based primarily on the rulings of the Shulechan Aruch and Chacham Ovadia Yosef, and includes practical and modern-day applications from the entire spectrum of balachic sources, including the rulings of the Chida, Ben Ish Chai, Ohr LeTzion, among many others.
"As he has done in his previous books, he has delved into the words of the Rishonim and Acharonim, and has explained their words with good language and with absolute clarity"
Rabbi David Yosef, Rosh Kollel of Yechaveh Daat, and author of Halachah Berurah
About the author:
Originally from Toronto, Canada, Rabbi Nacson now resides in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. He has studied in various prestigious Yeshivot for the past ten years. While attending the Mir Yeshivah in Yerushalayim, he received semicha (rabbinical ordination) in Issur V’heter from Rabbi Yitzchak Berkowitz, and compiled his first book, “Mi’mizrach Umi’maarav,” which discusses the various differences in customs between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. Afterwards, he received semicha in the laws of Niddah from Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, and semicha in the Laws of Chuppah and Kiddushin from Rabbi David Yosef, Rabbi Shlomo Ben-Shimon, Rabbi Max Sutton and various other Rabbanim.
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