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436: 31: 176:(known as the "Rosh"), a Rabbi of the Holy Roman Empire who, in 1303, moved to Toledo in Castile, due to increasing persecution of Jews in his native Germany. Besides his father, who was his principal teacher, Jacob quotes very often in the 258:, (actually short appetizers that start each section of his actual Torah commentary) which is printed in virtually all Jewish editions of the Pentateuch. These appetizers consist of mystical and symbolical references in the 196: 1623: 280:(often copied word-for-word), but without his cabalistic and philosophical interpretations. Jacob quotes many other commentators, among them 1628: 1593: 226:
books of all time. The work was divided into four sections, each called a "tur," alluding to the columns of jewels on the
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or "Kitzur Piske ha-Rosh" (Constantinople, 1575), an abridgment of his father's compendium of the
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the full commentary on the Pentateuch (Zolkiev, 1806). Its content is taken mainly from
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and acronyms as well as other occurrences of particular words elsewhere in the Torah.
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his elder brother Jehiel; once his brother Judah and once his uncle Rabbi Chaim.
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Some say Jacob succeeded his father as the rabbi of the Jewish community of
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Kitzur Shulchan Aruch - Code of Jewish Law, Forward to the New Edition
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did. His brothers were also rabbis of different communities in
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Translated from Hebrew biography in Bar Ilan CD-ROM
135:("Master of the Columns"), after his main work in 1575: 324:: see his contribution to the way it is affixed 465: 16:German rabbinic authority (c. 1269 - c. 1343) 252:Perush ha-Torah le-R. Ya'akov Ba'al ha-Turim 351:Kupfer, Ephraim (1972). "Jacob ben Asher". 472: 458: 29: 187:(Zacuto), while others say his brother 1576: 374:. New York: Hebrew Publishing Company. 369: 350: 1624:14th-century Jewish biblical scholars 453: 124:(Rabbeinu Asher), was an influential 353:Encyclopaedia Judaica, First Edition 13: 408:"The Sephardic Community of Chios" 172:He was the third son of the Rabbi 131:. 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(1961). 300:Works of Jacob ben Ascher 228:High Priest's breastplate 94: 84: 63: 42: 37: 28: 21: 1543:Isaac ben Jacob ha-Lavan 1533:Isaac ben Samuel of Acre 1053:Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi 983:Haim ben Hananel HaCohen 951:Moses ben Jacob of Coucy 875:Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen 523:Samuel ben Jacob ibn Jam 412:www.sephardicstudies.org 210: 1619:Exponents of Jewish law 1399:Avigdor Cohen of Vienna 1291:Isaac ben Asher ha-Levi 1236:Yehuda HaKohen ben Meir 1182:Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi 1126:Meshullam ben Kalonymus 1271:Jacob ben Judah Landau 1266:Joel ben Isaac ha-Levi 1241:Meir ben Baruch Halevi 850:Abraham of Montpellier 721:Simeon ben Zemah Duran 1486:Isaac ben Melchizedek 1481:Joseph Colon Trabotto 1166:(Maharam MeRotenberg) 826:(Raavad II, HaEshkol) 600:Isaac ben Moses Arama 528:Shemariah ben Elhanan 503:Chananel ben Chushiel 248:Rimzei Ba'al ha-Turim 207:, whilst travelling. 1563:Nethanel ben Isaiah‎ 1548:Nathan ben Abraham I 1440:Obadiah of Bertinoro 1158:Mordechai ben Hillel 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Cologne
Holy Roman Empire
Toledo
Castile
Judaism
Asher ben Jehiel
Medieval
rabbinic authority
halakha
Arba'ah Turim
Holy Roman Empire
Cologne
Toledo
Kingdom of Castile
Asher ben Jehiel
Toledo
Judah ben Asher
Iberia
Sephardic Community of Chios
Chios
Greece
Arba'ah Turim
halachic
High Priest's breastplate
Talmud
casuistry
Pentateuch
Torah
Masoretic text

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