Avraham Tzvi Hirsch Eisenstadt

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Avraham Tzvi Hirsch Eisenstadt was a 19th-century rabbinic scholar best known for his halachic work "Pitchei Teshuvah," an important commentary on the Shulchan Aruch.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish religious writer
Talmudic scholar
halachic authority
rabbi
areaOfExpertise practical halacha
rabbinic responsa literature
bibliographicRole compiler of responsa references
centuryOfActivity 19th century
commentaryOn Choshen Mishpat NERFINISHED
Even HaEzer NERFINISHED
Shulchan Aruch NERFINISHED
Yoreh Deah NERFINISHED
countryOfActivity Russian Empire NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Ashkenazi Jews NERFINISHED
familyName Eisenstadt NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Halakha
Jewish law NERFINISHED
genre halachic commentary
givenName Avraham NERFINISHED
Tzvi NERFINISHED
hasCommentary Pitchei Teshuvah on Choshen Mishpat NERFINISHED
Pitchei Teshuvah on Even HaEzer NERFINISHED
Pitchei Teshuvah on Yoreh Deah NERFINISHED
importanceInHalakha standard reference on Shulchan Aruch
widely cited by later authorities
influencedBy Shulchan Aruch NERFINISHED
classical poskim
knownFor Pitchei Teshuvah NERFINISHED
languageOfWork Hebrew
mainWorkSubject Shulchan Aruch NERFINISHED
movement Orthodox Judaism NERFINISHED
name Avraham Tzvi Hirsch Eisenstadt NERFINISHED
notableWork Pitchei Teshuvah NERFINISHED
occupation author
posek
rabbi
regionOfActivity Eastern Europe NERFINISHED
religion Judaism
religiousTradition Halakhic Judaism NERFINISHED
scholarlyApproach codification of halachic responsa
statusInRabbinicLiterature classic halachic commentator
typeOfScholar Acharon
usesSources earlier responsa collections
major halachic codes
workType halachic digest
responsa indexer
writingStyle concise halachic summaries

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Pitchei Teshuvah author Avraham Tzvi Hirsch Eisenstadt