How a 500-Year-Old Book Shaped Jewish Practice | The Jewish Story | Unpacked

At the dawn of the 16th century, both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews relied on oral traditions of Jewish law - Halakha. Both groups passed down their own unique customs. However, after the Spanish Inquisition’s mass expulsion, Sephardic Jews found themselves living alongside the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. This led to confusion over which traditions and laws to follow. Though they would never meet, Rabbi Yosef Karo and Rabbi Moses Isserles (AKA the “Rema”) worked together to create a book that would continue to shape Jewish practice for the next 500 years and counting.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:31 The Jewish oral tradition and Halacha/Halakha
00:52 Ideological conflicts between Jews
01:10 Rabbi Joseph Caro and the Beit Yosef
01:46 The Shulchan Aruch
02:00 Backlash against the Shulchan Aruch
02:23 Rabbi Moses Isserles and the Darchei Moshe
02:52 To publish or not to publish?
03:12 The Mapah and the continuation of Ashkenazi tradition without schism
04:24 The best of Jewish tradition
04:42 Outro

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