''Darkhei Moshe'' (in
hebrew
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: דרכי משה) is a commentary of the
book
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''
Arba'ah Turim'' and the
''Beit Yosef'', which is also a commentary on the
''Tur''. ''Darkhei Moshe'' was written by the Polish
Ashkenazi
Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...
Rabbi
Moses Isserles
). He is not to be confused with Meir Abulafia, known as "Ramah" ( he, רמ״ה, italic=no, links=no), nor with Menahem Azariah da Fano, known as "Rema MiPano" ( he, רמ״ע מפאנו, italic=no, links=no).
Rabbi Moses Isserles ( he, משה ...
(born in
Krakow in 1530 - died in Krakow in 1572).
The
Arba Turim is one of the sources that Rabbi
Joseph Karo
Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Yosef Caro, or Qaro ( he, יוסף קארו; 1488 – March 24, 1575, 13 Nisan 5335 Anno mundi, A.M.), was the author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the ''Beit Yosef (book), Beit Yosef'', and it ...
used to write the ''
Shulchan Aruch
The ''Shulchan Aruch'' ( he, שֻׁלְחָן עָרוּך , literally: "Set Table"), sometimes dubbed in English as the Code of Jewish Law, is the most widely consulted of the various legal codes in Judaism. It was authored in Safed (today in Is ...
'', the code of the Jewish law (the ''
halacha''), a book accepted and studied worldwide by the majority of
orthodox Jews
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. Isserles initially wanted that his book served as a base for latter legal rabbinical decisions.
His work evaluate the regulations of the ''Tur'', a book that was widely accepted for both ashkenazi and sephardic Jews, and he compared these regulations with the rulings of the rabbinical authorities in the matters related with halacha.
The Beit Yossef was published while Rabbi Isserles was working yet in his work, the
Darkhei Moshe. Knowing that the work of Rabbi Karo had reached widely its goals, Isserles published his work in a new modified format.
When he published his book, Rabbi Isserles offered a service to Ashkenazi jewry, for he relied on the rulings of the Ashkenazi rabbinical authorities. A summary of the original work was published together with the ''Tur''; the complete version of the ''Darkhei Moshe'' was published separately.
References
Rabbinic literature
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