apushitayid: The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch is not a sefer for practical psak in individual situations. Like the Mishnah Brurah, the Kitzur very often rules l’chumra on all matters in which there are differences of opinion among the rishonim and achronim. A good posek, however, when presented with a concrete situation is able to weigh all the circumstances and provide a ruling that is unlikely to be so cut and dry, and more unlikely to be categorically l’chumra. (I am not attacking you comment, since you did end with a comment suggesting the OP ask a rav for a practical psak; just making a general observation about many yeshiva-educated people’s tendency to jump too quickly from what they can read in a sefer or two to a practical psak halacha in a concrete situation).
Menu