From the days of the early halakhic authorities, Jewish communities refrained from eating meat and drinking wine during the ...

The Mishnah Berurah was written by Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen Kagan, better known as the Chafetz Chaim. The Chafetz Chaim was one of the greatest sages to have lived during the mid 1800’s and ...

Report this post. After studying Mishna Berurah on and off for 22 years, I finally completed it in Eretz Yisrael. This sefer was written by the Chafetz Chaim, whose real name was Rav Meir Kagan.

The Mishnah Berurah, in fact (414:5), recommends that those who are up to it should act in accordance with all opinions and wear no shoe at all – only socks (as did the Chazon Ish, for example).