In order to make his code categorical and prescriptive, Maimonides deliberately omitted sources and did not reference his predecessors.

Major books of halakhot from the geonic period.

During aninut, the phase between death and burial, the despairing mourner is freed of ritual obligations.

Kiddushin and Egalitarianism. Contemporary Jewish Marriage Issues. Jewish Marital Relations. Jewish Lifecycle

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