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Number of Se'ifim in Shulchan Aruch
Total
There are 13,550 seifim in Shulchan Aruch.
Breakdown
Orach Chaim — 4,170
Yoreh Deiah — 3,700
Even HaEzer — 1,988
Choshen Mishpat — 3,692
Methodology
I looked at the beginning of every ...
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Number of Se'ifim in Shulchan Aruch
I believe this would make an enjoyable web-scraping project, which might yield a more easily reproducible (and checkable) result. I've scraped the numbers from WikiSource, and gotten a total for Orach ...
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What is פנאד"ש?
I have found in the article (p. 8 of the PDF) of Eliezer Papo that it is
מאכל ספרדי דומה לבורקס שלנו היום – כיסנים ממולאים בבשר או בגבינה.
a Sephardic food similar to our bourekas today – dumplings ...
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Is there any place where Shulchan Aruch rules with the Rosh against the Rif and Rambam?
The Shulchan Arukh (OC 259:1) rules like Rosh, against Rif and Rambam, that wool shearings used to insulate a pot before Shabbat are not Muktza even if they weren't designated as insulation as long as ...
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Number of Se'ifim in Shulchan Aruch
So I decided to try counting for Orach Chaim ,and surprisingly did not take long at all (one hour around). I used excel to calculate the sum of all the seifim in all the simanim.
Orach Chaim = 697 ...
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Mazikim on Shabbos?
Perishah to Tur Orach Chaim 267 (answering a slightly different question) explains that there are in fact mazikim on shabbat, which would be consistent with the explanation you give for the recital of ...
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Did the Beit Yosef Write Every Siman in Shulchan Aruch?
The Yad Malachi (18th century) (klalei haposqim: klalei hashulhan arukh ve'rama) quotes a responsum of R. Samuel Aboab (17th century) (responsum #251) as stating that he heard that R. Karo delegated ...
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Who is "the author of the Shulchan Aruch" in this teshuvah of Rashbash?
The Machon Yerushalayim edition of the teshuvos, which is available on Otzar Chochmah, has a footnote that asks your question and suggests "the author of the Shulchan Aruch" was added by mistake at ...
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English version of SHULCHAN ARUCH
It took several years from the OP but I am pleased to announce that Sefaria has posted most of the original-by-Señor-Yosef-Karo Shulchan Aruch in English: https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Halakhah/...
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Where does the Shulchan Aruch quote an authority by name?
It's actually not that rare for the Shulchan Aruch to mention authorities by name. Here are a bunch of examples of different authorities mentioned:
In O.C. 34:1 he mentions a dispute involving Rashi,...
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Why is the Ba'eir Heiteiv citing himself?
There was a previous sefer called Be'er Heitev, by R. Yeshayah b. R. Avraham, and that is what he is quoting--אשר לפני means "that preceded me," not "that is in front of me." See ...
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Number of Se'ifim in Shulchan Aruch
TOTAL: 13,533
Orach Chaim (697 chapters): 4,108
Yoreh Deah (403 chapters): 3,685
Even HaEzer (178 chapters): 1,986
Choshen Mishpat (427 chapters): 3,754
I used the Shulchan Aruch in one volume ...
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Asher Yatzar on numerous occasions
The Mamar Mordechai (s.k. 3) understands the Shulchan Aruch's position is that the second recitation covers all the times he forgot, so one would never say more than two. However, the Pri Megadim (M.Z....
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What is chiltis?
Chiltis is a root vegetable known as Asafetida1,2, which is like garlic and is considered extremely strong and used in India for cooking and medicine. It is called חלתית from the root חוֹלֶה, sick, ...
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Sefer on Contemporary Shailos
There are many series of such books, a few I like are
R Daniel Mann from Eretz Hemda has a very nice series called Living the halachic process (also available one of them also available on Kindle) - ...
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Is it permissible for a woman to learn Pirkei Avot & Shulchan Aruch?
Rav Moshe Feinstein zt"l in Igros Moshe, YD III, siman 87 (top left column) famously said that girls can learn pirkei avos:
משום שהוא עניני מוסר והנהגות טובות יש ללמדם בהסבר לעוררן לאהבת תורה ...
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5th part of the shulchan aruch
According to Jewish historian Joseph Telushkin in his A Code of Jewish Ethics, Volume 1, this description is attributed to Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, an early twentieth century Rabbi.
The story is ...
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Mishnah Berurah style commentary on the rest of Shulchan Aruch
Yes, there are many such kind of seforim on all parts of Shulchan Aruch (in fact, almost all of it). Prof. Spiegel in his recently published book, 'Amudim Be'toldot Ha'sefer Ha'ivri - Hadar Ha'...
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Why give a non-useful example of blowing a Shofar on Shabbat in Shulchan Aruch 307:5?
Because that was the example that the Rambam gave here, and the Shulchan Aruch will often follow the Rambam's language. This is helpful because Rambam holds that in a place of Beis Din Kavuah, Shofar ...
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Why doesn't Shulchan Aruch include the laws of destroying fruit trees?
R. Jacob Reischer addresses this in a responsum:
Shu"t Shevut Yaakov 1:159
גם על הטור אין תימא כל כך דאף דלאו בפירוש אתמר מכללא אתמר כיון דאיסור לקצוץ אילנות הוא לאו דוקא אלא ה"ה כל המאבד ...
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Why must one recite any scripture while donning Rabbe'inu Tam tephillin?
The logic is that if one said Shema with Rashi's, but Rabbeinu Tam's is the correct Tefillin, then one didn't say Shema with Tefillin earlier, so say it now, properly. So the logic is that the proper ...
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What does it mean that learning torah is greater then respecting parents
One example is the ruling of the Terumat Hadeshen (40; cited here) that one can choose one's yeshiva over the objection of one's parents. Similarly, the Pri Chadash (cited in Pitchei Teshuva 240:8) ...
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Anonymous glosses in the Shulchan Aruch
This is (partly) addressed by the editors in the beginning of the Tzuras Hadaf edition of Shulchan Aruch. They note that many of the in-text explanations and citations are not actually from the ...
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Shulchan Aruch split into 30 portions
The Ketuvim Publishers has the complete Shulchan Aruch with the Rama in one volume. In the introduction the editor explains that the Bais Yosef intended the Shulchan Aruch to be studied and completed ...
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Contradiction between Beit Yosef and the Shulchan Aruch in O.C. תקנז
The Beit Yosef doesn't say to say it only at מנחה. He brings opinions on both sides and doesn't state his own opinion. I think this might have caused the confusion: When he says ושפשט המנהג כדברי ...
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Total number of Simanim In Shulchan Aruch
According to Sefaria there are
697 simanim in Orach Chaim
402 in Yoreh Deah (as @msh210 and @DoubleAA pointed out, there is no siman 168 but there are 2 simanim numbered 297)
178 in Even Haezer
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Where does the Shulchan Aruch quote an authority by name?
Here's a double naming in hilchos muktza:
הרשב"א מתיר לטלטל האיצטרלו"ב בשבת וכן ספרי החכמה ולדעת הרמב"ם יש להסתפק בדבר:
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Writing/drawing in the sand on Shabbos
The Gemara in Shabbos 3a states that when it comes to laws of Shabbos, the term פָּטוּר generally means that it is forbidden but doesn't require a sacrifice to be brought. So the Mishna never really '...
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Different Shulchan Aruchs?
In the 13th or 14th century, Rabbi Yaakov ben Asher set out to compose a guide that would organize all of the laws found in the Talmud into one place for ease of access and learning. He wrote Arba’ah ...
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