Jacob ben Asher (c. 1270 - 1340), also known as Ba'al ha-Turim as well as Rabbi Yaakov ben Raash (Rabbeinu Asher), was an influential Medieval rabbinic authority. He is often referred to as the Ba'al ha-Turim ("Master of the Columns"), after his main work in halakha (Jewish law), the Arba'ah Turim ("Four Columns").
JacobbenAsher (c. 1270 - 1340), also known as Ba'al ha-Turim as well as Rabbi Yaakov ben Raash (Rabbeinu Asher), was an influential Medieval rabbinic...
Asherben Jehiel (Hebrew: אשר בן יחיאל, or Asherben Yechiel, sometimes Asheri) (1250 or 1259 – 1327) was an eminent rabbi and Talmudist best known for...
benAsher (30 June 1270 – 4 July 1349) was a German Talmudist and later rabbi of Toledo, Spain, son of Rabbenu Asher and brother of JacobbenAsher ("Ba'al...
the years. Later codes of Jewish law, e.g. Arba'ah Turim by Rabbi JacobbenAsher and Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Yosef Karo, draw heavily on Mishneh Torah:...
Ha-Turim (but this is doubtful) Samuel benJacob Jam'a, 12th century North African rabbi and scholar Asherben Jehiel, (Rosh), 13th century German-Spanish...
commentary on the siddur. He is said to have been a student of JacobbenAsher (son of Asherben Yechiel). This view originates in Chaim Yosef David Azulai's...
Ashkenazi diaspora are students of his." As early as the 14th century, Asherben Jehiel wrote that Rabbeinu Gershom's writings were "such permanent fixtures...
Isaac benJacob Alfasi (1013–1103) (Arabic: إسحاق الفاسي, Hebrew: ר' יצחק אלפסי) - also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym, the Rif (Rabbi Isaac...
Jacobben Meir (1100 – 9 June 1171 (4 Tammuz)), best known as Rabbeinu Tam (Hebrew: רבינו תם), was one of the most renowned Ashkenazi Jewish rabbis and...
Asherben Meshullam was a Jewish theologian and Talmudic scholar who lived at Lunel in the second half of the 12th century CE. A renowned Talmudist, he...
called it a "foolish custom", JacobbenAsher (14th century), who called it "an unnecessary stringency", and Samuel ben Solomon of Falaise, one of the...
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...
forerunner, the Beit Yosef) follow the same structure as Arba'ah Turim by JacobbenAsher. There are four volumes, each subdivided into many chapters and paragraphs:...
entering the room. The compromise solution was suggested by Rabbi JacobbenAsher (c. 1269 – c. 1343). Most Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews and other non-Ashkenazi...
Nissim benJacob (Hebrew: ניסים בן יעקב), also known as Nissim Gaon (Hebrew: רבנו נסים גאון, lit. 'Our teacher Nissim the Gaon'; 990–1062), was a rabbi...
Jacobben Judah Hazzan was a 13th-century Jewish legal codifier based in London, England. His grandfather was one Jacob he-Aruk (possibly Jacob le Long)...
Ashkenazic customs differ. It was also approved by Asherben Jehiel (c. 1250–1327) and his son JacobbenAsher (1269–1343) and other commentators. The ritual...
Moses ben Nachman (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־נָחְמָן Mōše ben-Nāḥmān, "Moses son of Nachman"; 1194–1270), commonly known as Nachmanides (/nækˈmænɪdiːz/; Greek:...
Meshullam son of Jacob (or Meshullam HaKohen ben Ya'akov) also known as Rabbeinu Meshullam hagodol (Rabbi Meshullem the great) was a Franco-Jewish Talmudist...
house"), a critical and comprehensive commentary on the Arba'ah Turim of JacobbenAsher, in which he traced each law to its Talmudic source and followed its...
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