Bayis Malei Sefarim

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Bayis Malei Sefarim:

It is a Mitzvah to publish [and purchase] Chumashim, Mishnah, Gemara and their commentaries.[1] Some Poskim[2] rule that this Mitzvah is a positive Biblical command, and is in place of the Mitzvah of purchasing a Sefer Torah. [This Mitzvah is fulfilled through writing or purchasing all Torah Sefarim and not just those listed above. One is especially to purchase Sefarim dealing with practical Halacha which will be studied frequently in order to know what one is to practically follow. Likewise every child is to have a Siddur, Chumash and Tehillim of his own [Chitas]. These Sefarim are to be placed in his room. One is likewise to donate Sefarim to public libraries and help them expand.[3] Every home is to likewise contain the following three Sefarim: Keser Shem Tov of the Baal Shem Tov, Or Torah of the Maggid and Tanya.[4] ]

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[1] Michaber 270/2

 

 

[2] Shach 270/5; Perisha 270

Other Poskim: Many Poskim rule that the Mitzvah of purchasing SZefarim is not included in the Mitzvah of writing a Sefer Torah, and rather this Mitzvah is intact even today. [Michaber 270/1; Levush; Magid Mishneh brought in Shach ibid]

 

 

[3] Sichas Hei Teves 1988 printed in Hisvadyus 2/170-173

 

 

[4] Sichas 1950 p. 265; Sefer Haminhagim

 

 

About The Author

Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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