The Acharonim in 10 Minutes

Everything Jewish - 10 Minutes at a Time · Sep 17, 2026 · 7m

In this episode of Everything Jewish, 10 Minutes at a Time, we reach the era of the Acharonim — the "Later Ones" — the final major group of rabbinic authorities who shaped Jewish law and thought from the 16th century all the way into the modern period. Following the towering Rishonim and the publication of the Shulchan Aruch, these brilliant scholars including the Beit Yosef, the Vilna Gaon, the Chatam Sofer, the Noda B'Yehuda, and many others analyzed, debated, and applied halacha to an ever-changing Jewish world marked by emancipation, enlightenment, persecution, and technological…