This week’s parshah, Vayakhel-Pekudei, begins with a special reminder about the importance of observing Shabbos in all of its details. What better timing to announce that the complete Hilchos Shabbos of the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch is now available online for the first time.
This extraordinary resource is the result of a unique partnership between Sichos in English (SIE) and Chabad.org, which has spanned more than two decades.
To make this fundamental work of Halacha more accessible, SIE undertook the monumental task of rendering the text in English for the first time, employing a team of scholars, researchers, and designers. They partnered with Kehot Publication Society, who are the publishers of the original Hebrew version. To date, SIE has published six volumes of the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch.
Following the successful launch of earlier online installments, which included much of the first volume of the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch, the latest additions include Hilchos Shabbos and Hilchos Tefillin.
A highly specialized engine was developed by Chabad.org developers to seamlessly digitize and elegantly display the Shulchan Aruch, preserving the intuitive layout of its printed counterpart. In addition to the side-by-side display of the Hebrew and English text, features include the ability to browse sources and footnotes.
This project was made possible by R. Yonah Mordechai and Hadassah Weiss and family, and R. Moshe Aaron Tzvi and Ruty Weiss and family, in memory of R. Yisochor Dov and Miriam Weiss.
Browse the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch online at www.Chabad.org/ShulchanAruch.
Purchase the printed volumes at SIE.org.
First, everyone involved in the translation and putting so much of the shulchan aruch harav online deserves tremendous thanks for the enormous work involved and how helpful it will be.
Second, a correction not all of hilchos shabbos is online – only through siman/section 300 – which is a lot – but hilchos that pertain to shabbos extend for many more simanim/sections. This is not meant to demean the work done until now which is great, but to point out the need to continue this gevaldik avodas hakodesh.
This is incredible and will help so many with learning shulchan Aruch!
Absolutely. Most importantly, he raised the funds to get this to happen. G-d bless him.
Although he is one that wishes to stay behind the scene and out of the limelight, enormous credit must be given to the one that envisioned this project, and is the main driving force. He put together the team that is working on this project, oversees the progress, and solicted the donors that are financing the project, namely, Mayer Preger.
Kudos to all those who participated in this monumental accomplishment!