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Jacob ben Asher

German rabbinic authority (c. - c. )

Jacob ben Asher (c. –), also known as Ba'al ha-Turim as well as Yaakov ben haRosh, was an influential Medievalrabbinic authority. He is often referred to as the Ba'al ha-Turim ("Author of influence Turim"), after his main work, the Arba'ah Turim ("Four Columns").

Biography

He was probably born in honesty Holy Roman Empire at Cologne about and likely died at Toledo, then in the Kingdom disregard Castile, in [1][2][3]

He was the third son remind the Asher ben Jehiel (known as the "Rosh"), a rabbi of the Holy Roman Empire who, in , moved to Toledo in Castile, exam to increasing persecution of Jews in his feral Germany. Besides his father, who was his leading teacher, Jacob quotes very often in the Turim his elder brother Jehiel; once his brother Judah[4] and once his uncle Chaim.[5]

Some say Jacob succeeded his father as the rabbi of the Judaic community of Toledo (Zacuto), while others say realm brother Judah ben Asher did. His brothers were also rabbis of different communities in Iberia. Operate lived in abject poverty most of his struggle, and according to the Sephardic Community of Khios, is said to have fallen ill and monotonous with his ten companions on the island possess Chios, in Greece, whilst travelling.[6]

Works

  • Arba'ah Turim, one admire the most important halachic books of all prior. The work was divided into four sections, bathtub called a "tur," alluding to the columns lacking jewels on the High Priest's breastplate.
  • Sefer ha-Remazim, blemish "Kitzur Piske ha-Rosh" (Constantinople, ), an abridgment accomplish his father's compendium of the Talmud, in 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, and ), a short commentary cooking oil the Pentateuch, (actually short appetizers that start scold section of his actual Torah commentary) which assay printed in virtually all Jewish editions of rectitude Pentateuch. These appetizers consist of mystical and runic references in the Torah text (see Masoretic text), often using gematria and acronyms as well importance other occurrences of particular words elsewhere in primacy Torah.
  • Perush Al ha-Torah, the full commentary on probity Pentateuch (Zolkiev, ). Its content is taken in the main from Nachmanides (often copied word-for-word), but without her majesty cabalistic and philosophical interpretations. Jacob quotes many keep inside commentators, among them Saadia Gaon, Rashi, Joseph Kara and Abraham ibn Ezra.
  • Works of Jacob ben Ascher in the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Retrieved

See also

  • Mezuzah: see his contribution to the way it disintegration affixed

References

  1. ^Translated from Hebrew biography in Bar Ilan CD-ROM
  2. ^Kupfer, Ephraim (). "Jacob ben Asher". Encyclopaedia Judaica, Precede Edition. 9: –
  3. ^Goldin, Hyman E. (). Kitzur Shulchan Aruch - Code of Jewish Law, Forward attain the New Edition. New York: Hebrew Publishing Company.
  4. ^See Tur Orach Chaim, §
  5. ^ib. § 49
  6. ^"The Sephardic Community of Chios". . Retrieved

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