Aruch HaShulchan - Similar Works

Similar Works

The Aruch HaShulchan is often quoted alongside the Mishnah Berurah, a work partially composed earlier by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan (the Chafetz Chaim). The Aruch Hashulchan was composed and printed serially starting with Choshen Mishpat (prior to the printing of the Mishna Berurah) and the section on Orach Chayim published afterwards. Indeed, the Aruch HaShulchan refers in a number of places to the Mishnah Berurah. Due to the latter's popularity in the yeshiva world, the Mishnah Berurah is often considered authoritative over Aruch HaShulchan by yeshiva graduates. However, many people (including Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin and Rabbi Yehuda Pearl) have famously held that the Aruch HaShulchan is more authoritative, since its author was the rabbi of a community, and since it was printed after the Mishnah Berurah. Also, Aruch HaShulchan has a much wider scope than the Mishnah Berurah.