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Book from the collection of the Przypkowski Museum in Jędrzejów. Hebrew print, ed. Pesel Balaban Printing House, Lemberg [Lviv] 1900, part 2, 648 pages. The copy was purchased in 1972 from Piotr Chrzanowski of Jędrzejów.

Original title:

ספר אשלי רברבי הוא שלחן ערוך יורה דעה

[Sefer ashlei ravrevei hu Shulchan aruch Yoreh De'ah].

Księga wielkiego człowieka [The Book of the Great Man], Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah.

Alternate title in Latin alphabet: YOREH DE'AH.

Text in Hebrew, publisher, and place and year of publication in Hebrew and German.

Yoreh De'ah (in Hebrew, Teacher of Wisdom) is the second of the four parts of the legal code Arba'ah Turim (Four Columns) by Jacob ben Asher, and its commentary, Shulchan Aruch (Set Table), by Joseph ben Ephraim Karo. The work was first published in Venice in 1551. It contains laws and regulations regarding kashrut, ritual slaughter, ritual purity, rituals during work, mourning, and more.