Shiurim from Rabbi Doniel Yehudah Neustadt

Rabbi Doniel Yehudah Neustadt

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With the great resurgence of Torah study that we are witnessing in our time, accompanied by the great demand for fundamental Torah texts available in English, the objective of the Ohr Olam edition of Mishnah Berurah is to harness the full potential of the Mishnah Berurah, the predominant halachic text for daily living, and make it easily accessible to the contemporary English-speaking Jew. As its sublime author, the Chafetz Chaim, explains in his own introduction to his work: the Mishnah Berurah was written with the express purpose of transmitting halachah to the contemporary Jew in a palatable, easily accessible fashion. To this end, the approach of Mishnah Berurah is geared towards presenting definitive halachah along with a discussion of the background and reasoning behind it. The preeminence of this approach has been proven by Mishnah Berurah’s timelessness and its place as the foremost resource in so many Jewish homes across the globe. Our hope is that by presenting Ohr Olam’s edition of Mishnah Berurah to the English-speaking Torah community, the influence of this great work will flourish and halachah as a subject of study will take on new dimensions. We were fortunate to count Rabbi Doniel Yehudah Neustadt as one of the members of our team. In this work, he incorporates the immense value of his highly popular Halachah Discussion series – in-depth discourses that span a vast number of halachic authorities, and ultimately arrive at a definitive and practical ruling. These discussions are presented in a special section at the back of this volume and are referenced throughout the text, wherever they apply.