Tzitz Eliezer

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Tzitz Eliezer is a major halachic treatise that covers a wide breadth of halacha including medical halacha as well as more common halachic issues from Shabbat to the kashrut. It was authored by Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg who was considered by many to be unparalleled. This work cemented Rabbi Waldenberg's reputation as a halachic authority, and because of it, Rabbi Waldenberg came to be known, as the Tzitz Eliezer, in accord with a common Jewish practice of referring to great rabbis by the names of their main halachic writings.

Rabbi Waldenberg was born in Jerusalem in 1917 and died there on November 21, 2006.