Originally published in the Jewish Law Annual 7 (1988), p. 290. Yair Hayyim Bacharach, Mekor Hayyim, ed. Rabbi Eliyahu Dov Pines, Jerusalem: Makhon Yerushalayim, Vol. I, 1982, Pp. i, 356, Price £12.50; Vol. II, 1984, Pp. ii, 541, Price, £14.50. These beautifully produced volumes contain the text of Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim with the Baer Hetev…