The sheer number of Jewish laws infuses everyday life with endless opportunities to touch the divine within. With this modern translation, the English-reading public can study Jewish law as taught by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe, from the original source. In this the first installment the translation page faces the newly reset Hebrew text. Notations appear when the Alter Rebbe's rulings are at variance with Rabbi Yosef Karo's Shulchan Aruch and when other halachic works cite the subject at hand. The handsome, hardbound volume is a desk-friendly format with a satin ribbon marker. Laws discussed pertain to loans, witnesses, documents, sales, presents, agents and guardians, unfair gain and deception, weights and measures and excessive charges, and discovered objects and entrusted articles. - from Amzon