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Rabbi
Asher ben Jehiel
Personal
Born
c. 1250
probably Cologne, Holy Roman Empire
Died
(1327-10-24)24 October 1327
Toledo, Castile
Religion
Judaism
Children
Judah ben Asher Jacob ben Asher Jehiel Ben Asher
Yahrtzeit
9 Cheshvan
Asher ben Jehiel (Hebrew: אשר בן יחיאל, or Asher ben Yechiel, sometimes Asheri) (1250 or 1259 – 1327) was an eminent rabbi and Talmudist best known for his abstract of Talmudic law. He is often referred to as Rabbenu Asher, “our Rabbi Asher” or by the Hebrew acronym for this title, the Rosh (רא"ש). His yahrzeit is on 9 Cheshvan.
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the Kingdom of Castile, in 1340. He was the third son of the Rabbi AsherbenJehiel (known as the "Rosh"), a Rabbi of the Holy Roman Empire who, in 1303...
Ashkenazi diaspora are students of his." As early as the 14th century, AsherbenJehiel wrote that Rabbeinu Gershom's writings were "such permanent fixtures...
different people and could not have referred to Jesus of Nazareth. AsherbenJehiel also asserted that the Yeshu of the Talmud is unrelated to the Christian...
Ketuvot 29b et passim). Flourished in the 12th century; student of Isaac benAsher ha-Levi. He corresponded with Jacob Tam and was a fellow student of Moses...
ben Yoel HaLevi of Bonn (Hebrew acronym ראבי״ה Ra'avyah; 1140–1225) was a Rabbinic scholar in Germany. He had a significant influence on Asherben Jehiel...
miracle that they were saved from the Plague of the Firstborn". AsherbenJehiel and Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen quotes the Jerusalem Talmud as an additional...
Nathan benJehiel of Rome (Hebrew: נתן בן יחיאל מרומי, romanized: Nāṯān ben Yəḥiʾel mirRomi, c. 1035 – 1106) was a Jewish Italian lexicographer. He authored...
benAsher (30 June 1270 – 4 July 1349) was a German Talmudist and later rabbi of Toledo, Spain, son of Rabbenu Asher and brother of Jacob benAsher ("Ba'al...
Genesis and possibly a nation listed in Ezekiel "The Rosh", Rabbi AsherbenJehiel (1250–1328) a prominent Talmudic scholar Lea Rosh, German television...
Bahya benAsher ibn Halawa (בחיי בן אשר אבן חלואה, 1255–1340) was a rabbi and scholar of Judaism, best known as a commentator on the Hebrew Bible. He...
the years. Later codes of Jewish law, e.g. Arba'ah Turim by Rabbi Jacob benAsher and Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Yosef Karo, draw heavily on Mishneh Torah:...
community referred to as talmidei haRambam. The work of the Rosh, Rabbi AsherbenJehiel (1250?/1259?–1328), an abstract of the Talmud, concisely stating the...
Ma'achalot Assurot:9:28. Solomon ben Aderet, commentary to Hullin 8:5 AsherbenJehiel, commentary to Hullin 8:5 Jacob benAsher, Shulchan Aruch Hullin (Tosafot)...
it that a large ransom of 23,000 marks silver was raised for him by AsherbenJehiel, but Rabbi Meir refused it for fear of encouraging the imprisonment...
back to the Roman period. The Provençal rabbi and scholar Rabbi Abraham ben David wrote in anno 1161: "A tradition exists with the [Jewish] community...
including AsherbenJehiel (Responsa 3:15), the Tosafists (b. Sotah 10a), Yechiel of Paris (cited Birkei Yosef, Oraḥ Hayyim 85:8), Simeon ben Zemah Duran...
Halakhot of Rabbi Isaac Alfasi (the Rif), Maimonides (the Rambam), and AsherbenJehiel (the Rosh) as his standards, accepting as authoritative the opinion...
Moses ben Nachman (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־נָחְמָן Mōše ben-Nāḥmān, "Moses son of Nachman"; 1194–1270), commonly known as Nachmanides (/nækˈmænɪdiːz/; Greek:...
Ha-Turim (but this is doubtful) Samuel ben Jacob Jam'a, 12th century North African rabbi and scholar AsherbenJehiel, (Rosh), 13th century German-Spanish...
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Ashkenazic customs differ. It was also approved by AsherbenJehiel (c. 1250–1327) and his son Jacob benAsher (1269–1343) and other commentators. The ritual...
teachers of the time, was given the title HaKadosh "the Holy" by the AsherbenJehiel. His contemporary Isaiah di Trani described him as "the wonder of the...
thousand. Among his numerous students were Yom Tov Asevilli and Bahya benAsher. A manuscript purporting to be a certificate of indebtedness, dated 1262...
grandson of Eliezer ben Joel ha-Levi, who was in turn a grandson of Eliezer ben Nathan. Mordechai was also a relative of Rabbi AsherbenJehiel. He was a son-in-law...
often occur. Examples include Solomon ben Aderet's Responsa (vol. i., No. 395); the Responsa of AsherbenJehiel (pp. 4, 6); his Halakot (Berakot i. 12...