About This Text
Author: Meir Dan Plotsky
Composed: 1906 CE
Keli Chemdah is an early-20th-century Torah commentary by Polish Rabbi Meir Dan Plotsky. The work focuses on halakhic topics that are connected to biblical texts. In discussing these topics, Plotsky engages in complex and lengthy analysis (similar to what is known in Hebrew as pilpul), quoting many opinions, raising challenges, suggesting solutions, refuting those solutions, and exploring multiple options.