By COLlive reporter
Machon Smicha’s Shuchan Aruch is changing the way halacha is being learned, empowering and enabling many to learn and master halacha, from the novice to the well seasoned.
“There is a real need for people to be able to learn halacha well,” said Israel’s Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau, when presented with the Machon Smicha Shulchan Aruch by its director Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Kesselman and Rabbi Yoram Ulman, Av Beis Din and Rov in Sydney, Australia.
“Unfortunately, that door feels locked to many,” Rabbi Lau said. “What I’m holding in my hands is the key to unlocking that door.”
In addition to an elucidated translation of the text of the Shulchan Aruch, the new work contains an introduction to each halacha, wherein all relevant background information to the halacha is presented; along with an in-depth Discussion and Explanations section, which explores in detail the primary commentaries on the Shulchan Aruch, along with the contemporary application of the halacha under discussion.
The new Shulchan Aruch was created by Machon Smicha, a one-of-a-kind, online, smicha program that strives to provide learners with step-by-step guidance through the smicha (or other courses) process. Learners are equipped with the Shulchan Aruch Study Guide, support from rabbis and teachers, a flexible learning schedule, and so much more.
“Our goal is to enable people to learn halacha at an advanced level,” says Rabbi Kesselman, “even if they are not able to do so on their own. Baruch Hashem, we have a talented team of writers, editors, and designers, and what they have created has the power to achieve precisely that.”
“The opportunity to learn and attain smicha is now available to everyone. It is worthwhile to grab this opportunity with both hands,” said Rabbi Chaim Finkelstein, Rosh Yeshiva Le’Rabbonus in Pretoria South Africa, and one of the masmichim of the program.
Machon Smicha offers a Smicha course, a Chuppah v’Kiddusin course for shluchim and rabbonim, and is also launching a Dayanus and Choshen Mishpat course at the beginning of 5783.
The next smicha cohort begins in less than two weeks, on May 1 2022 (30 Nissan 5782.) For more, visit onlinemachon.com
To view a sample of the new Shulchan Aruch – click here
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Where can we buy the seforim?