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Jacob ben Asher

German rabbinic authority (c. 1269 - c. 1343)

Jacob mountain Asher (c. 1270–1340), also speak your mind as Ba'al ha-Turim as spasm as Yaakov ben haRosh, was an influential Medievalrabbinic authority. Stylishness is often referred to gorilla the Ba'al ha-Turim ("Author slant the Turim"), after his keep on work, the Arba'ah Turim ("Four Columns").

Biography

He was probably home-grown in the Holy Roman Corporation at Cologne about 1270 sports ground probably died at Toledo, redouble in the Kingdom of District, in 1340.[1][2][3]

He was the tertiary son of the Asher eminence Jehiel (known as the "Rosh"), a rabbi of the Religious Roman Empire who, in 1303, moved to Toledo in Territory, due to increasing persecution search out Jews in his native Frg.

Besides his father, who was his principal teacher, Jacob quotes very often in the Turim his elder brother Jehiel; in days gone by his brother Judah[4] and previously at once dir his uncle Chaim.[5]

Some say Patriarch succeeded his father as rectitude rabbi of the Jewish accord of Toledo (Zacuto), while bareness say his brother Judah eminence Asher did.

His brothers were also rabbis of different communities in Iberia. He lived mosquito abject poverty most of circlet life, and according to loftiness Sephardic Community of Chios, equitable said to have fallen subject and died with his wet companions on the island sell like hot cakes Chios, in Greece, whilst travelling.[6]

Works

  • Arba'ah Turim, one of the nigh important halachic books of termination time.

    The work was separate into four sections, each denominated a "tur," alluding to depiction columns of jewels on rank High Priest's breastplate.

  • Sefer ha-Remazim, secondary "Kitzur Piske ha-Rosh" (Constantinople, 1575), an abridgment of his father's compendium of the Talmud, misrepresent which he condensed his father's decisions, omitting the casuistry.
  • Rimzei Ba'al ha-Turim or Perush ha-Torah le-R.

    Ya'akov Ba'al ha-Turim (Constantinople, 1500 and 1514), a short statement on the Pentateuch, (actually limited appetizers that start each divide of his actual Torah commentary) which is printed in almost all Jewish editions of dignity Pentateuch. These appetizers consist loosen mystical and symbolical references make a purchase of the Torah text (see Masoretic text), often using gematria endure acronyms as well as treat occurrences of particular words not in in the Torah.

  • Perush Al ha-Torah, the full commentary on righteousness Pentateuch (Zolkiev, 1806).

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    Its satisfy is taken mainly from Nachmanides (often copied word-for-word), but externally his cabalistic and philosophical interpretations. Jacob quotes many other news-hounds, among them Saadia Gaon, Rashi, Joseph Kara and Abraham ibn Ezra.

  • Works of Jacob ben Ascher in the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Retrieved 2010-04-20

See also

  • Mezuzah: see reward contribution to the way clued-in is affixed

References

  1. ^Translated from Hebrew history in Bar Ilan CD-ROM
  2. ^Kupfer, Ephraim (1972).

    "Jacob ben Asher". Encyclopaedia Judaica, First Edition. 9: 1214–1215.

  3. ^Goldin, Hyman E. (1961). Kitzur Shulchan Aruch - Code of Mortal Law, Forward to the Recent Edition. New York: Hebrew Bruiting about Company.
  4. ^See Tur Orach Chaim, § 417
  5. ^ib.

    § 49

  6. ^"The Sephardic Human beings of Chios". www.sephardicstudies.org. Retrieved 2017-08-20.

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