Aruch HaShulchan
Hilchos Aveilus

No area of halachah reaches a family at a more vulnerable hour than hilchos aveilus. In the house of a mourner there is no time to research — and yet the questions come by the hour: bikur cholim and the final viduy, keriah, the seudas havra’ah, shivah and sheloshim, kaddish, the yahrtzeit, the matzeivah. The Aruch HaShulchan of R’ Yechiel Michel Epstein walks through all of it — Yoreh De’ah 335 through 403, every siman — with the sources, the reasoning, and the warmth of a rav who sat with mourners for a lifetime.

This edition translates and elucidates every seif of all sixty-nine simanim, nothing abridged — and surrounds them with the halachah as it is lived today. Hundreds of framed studies compare his rulings with the Chochmas Adam and Pischei Teshuva; a Later Authorities layer carries the Gesher HaChaim of R’ Yechiel Michel Tucazinsky — the classic of these halachos — together with R’ Moshe Feinstein’s Igros Moshe, the Shevet HaLevi, the Tzitz Eliezer, and the Minchas Yitzchak, into the very sugya where each ruling belongs.

And because the person who reaches for this sefer often needs the answer first, every siman closes with the Tamtzis Aruch HaShulchan — the practical bottom line in a clear, referenced digest. A sefer that will sit in shuls, in chevra kadisha rooms, and in homes — opened on the days its dedication will mean the most. There may be no more fitting sefer in which to inscribe the name of a loved one.