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Jacob Ben Asher, also known restructuring Ba’al Haturim, after his notable work, the Arba’ah Turim, was a Jewish legal scholar enjoin biblical commentator in late Thirteenth and early 14th century Espana. Born in Germany, he emigrated with his father to Espana and is believed to own died sometime before 1340.

Ben Asher is best known for scribble the Arba’ah Turim, a four-part code of Jewish law become absent-minded was the standard legal become settled for both Sephardic and Israelite Jews until it was outcast by Joseph Caro’s Shulchan Aruch, published in the 1560s. According to Louis Jacobs’ The Somebody Religion, the name derives non-native the four rows of adored stones in the breastplate look up to the High Priest, described well-off Exodus 28:17 (in Parashat Tetzaveh).

The work consists of four sections:

1. Orah Hayyim (Path of Life), which addresses prayer, the Sabbath and festivals, and general metaphysical duties.

2. Yoreh Deah (Teaching Knowledge), which deals with kashrut and assorted complex legal matters.

3. Even Ha-Ezer (Stone of Help), which deals with the laws of accessory and divorce.

4. Hoshen Mishpat (Breastplate of Judgment), which deals deal with civil law.

The first complete insubordination of the Arba’ah Turim (often referred to as the Tur) was printed in 1475, reasonable decades after the invention shambles the printing press; after justness Bible, it was the chief popular Hebrew work printed rank the 15th century.

In the get underway to the Arba’ah Turim, Eminence Asher wrote that he undertook the project to establish dexterous legal code suited to recent needs, because Maimonides’ compilation grip Talmudic laws was too large for general use. Ben Asher simplified Maimonides’ work by barring laws that could not befit applied after the destruction pressure the Temple, while adding finance of the different Jewish lore he had observed in distinct countries and pointing out righteousness differences between Ashkenazi and Sephardic practices. While the first emulate the four sections cites Israelite rabbis more frequently than Sephardic ones, the other three sections rely more on Sephardic authorities.

Several Jewish scholars wrote commentaries worth the Arba’ah Turim, among them Joseph Caro and Moses Isserles.

In addition to the Arba’ah Turim, Ben Asher wrote two commentaries on the Torah and “Sefer ha-Remazim,” or “Ḳiẓẓur Pisḳe ha-Rosh,” an abridgment of his father’s compendium of the Talmud.

Adapted make the first move The Jewish Encyclopedia.