HaMapah on Yoreh De’ah

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halakhic glosses rabbinic commentary

HaMapah on Yoreh De’ah is Rabbi Moshe Isserles’ glosses to the Yoreh De’ah section of the Shulchan Aruch, integrating Ashkenazic customs and rulings into Joseph Karo’s legal code.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
HaMapah on Yoreh Deah	2
HaMapah on Yoreh De’ah canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2515346 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: HaMapah on Yoreh De’ah
Context triple: [Moshe Isserles, hasPart, HaMapah on Yoreh De’ah]

A. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch is a concise 19th-century Jewish legal code that summarizes practical halakhic rulings for everyday observance.
B. Mishnah Berurah
Mishnah Berurah is a seminal six-volume halakhic commentary on the Orach Chayim section of the Shulchan Aruch, authored by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan and widely used as an authoritative guide to daily Jewish law and practice.
C. Shulchan Aruch
Shulchan Aruch is a seminal 16th-century codification of Jewish law that serves as the primary halachic reference for much of the Jewish world.
D. Magid Mishneh
Magid Mishneh is a classic rabbinic commentary on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, authored by Rabbi Vidal of Tolosa and widely studied in halakhic scholarship.
E. Mishneh Torah
Mishneh Torah is a comprehensive 12th-century Jewish legal code by Maimonides that systematically organizes and clarifies all of Jewish law.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: HaMapah on Yoreh De’ah
Target entity description: HaMapah on Yoreh De’ah is Rabbi Moshe Isserles’ glosses to the Yoreh De’ah section of the Shulchan Aruch, integrating Ashkenazic customs and rulings into Joseph Karo’s legal code.

A. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch is a concise 19th-century Jewish legal code that summarizes practical halakhic rulings for everyday observance.
B. Mishnah Berurah
Mishnah Berurah is a seminal six-volume halakhic commentary on the Orach Chayim section of the Shulchan Aruch, authored by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan and widely used as an authoritative guide to daily Jewish law and practice.
C. Shulchan Aruch
Shulchan Aruch is a seminal 16th-century codification of Jewish law that serves as the primary halachic reference for much of the Jewish world.
D. Magid Mishneh
Magid Mishneh is a classic rabbinic commentary on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, authored by Rabbi Vidal of Tolosa and widely studied in halakhic scholarship.
E. Mishneh Torah
Mishneh Torah is a comprehensive 12th-century Jewish legal code by Maimonides that systematically organizes and clarifies all of Jewish law.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	halakhic glosses ⓘ rabbinic commentary ⓘ
aimsTo	adapt Shulchan Aruch to Ashkenazic practice ⓘ
associatedWith	16th-century halakhic codification ⓘ Polish Jews ⓘ surface form: Polish Jewry
author	Rabbi Moshe Isserles ⓘ Rema ⓘ
basedOn	Ashkenazic minhagim ⓘ earlier Ashkenazic halakhic authorities ⓘ
canonicalStatus	standard component of printed Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De’ah editions ⓘ
commentaryOn	Joseph Karo’s Yoreh De’ah rulings ⓘ Shulchan Aruch ⓘ Tur Yoreh De’ah ⓘ surface form: Yoreh De’ah
function	harmonize Ashkenazic custom with codified law ⓘ record divergences from Sephardic rulings ⓘ supplement Shulchan Aruch with Ashkenazic practice ⓘ
geographicFocus	Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ surface form: Ashkenazic Jewry
halakhicStatus	normative for Ashkenazic communities ⓘ
influence	later Ashkenazic halakhic practice ⓘ subsequent commentaries on Yoreh De’ah ⓘ
integrates	Ashkenazic customs ⓘ Ashkenazic halakhic rulings ⓘ
language	Hebrew ⓘ
legalDomain	Jewish law ⓘ
namedAfter	Mappah ⓘ surface form: HaMapah ("the tablecloth")
partOf	Mappah ⓘ surface form: HaMapah Shulchan Aruch commentaries ⓘ surface form: Shulchan Aruch commentarial tradition
positionInPage	printed interspersed within the text of Yoreh De’ah ⓘ
relationToShulchanAruch	reflects Ashkenazic disagreement with some of Karo’s rulings ⓘ supplements Joseph Karo’s code ⓘ
religiousLawSystem	Halakha ⓘ
religiousTradition	Judaism ⓘ
script	Hebrew alphabet ⓘ
sectionOfLaw	Tur Yoreh De’ah ⓘ surface form: Yoreh De’ah
subjectMatter	basar be-chalav (meat and milk) ⓘ issur ve-heter (prohibited and permitted foods) ⓘ kashrut ⓘ laws of vows and oaths (Yoreh De’ah sections) ⓘ mourning practices (Yoreh De’ah sections) ⓘ niddah (family purity laws as treated in Yoreh De’ah) ⓘ orlah and kilayim (certain agricultural prohibitions as treated in Yoreh De’ah) ⓘ ritual purity and impurity (Yoreh De’ah topics) ⓘ shechitah (ritual slaughter) ⓘ
typicalPrintFeature	set in smaller type than the main Shulchan Aruch text ⓘ
usedBy	poskim (halakhic decisors) ⓘ rabbinic courts ⓘ students of halakhah ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rabbi Moshe Isserles → hasPart → HaMapah on Yoreh De’ah ⓘ

subject surface form: Moshe Isserles

HaMapah on Even HaEzer → relatedWork → HaMapah on Yoreh De’ah ⓘ

this entity surface form: HaMapah on Yoreh Deah

HaMapah on Choshen Mishpat → relatedWork → HaMapah on Yoreh De’ah ⓘ