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    Arba'ah Turim (Hebrew: אַרְבָּעָה טוּרִים), often called simply the Tur, is an important Halakhic code composed by Yaakov ben Asher (Cologne, 1270 – Toledo...
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    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"). He was probably...
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    section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of Halakha (Jewish law), Arba'ah Turim. This section addresses aspects of Jewish law pertinent to the Hebrew...
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  • sections of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of halakha (Jewish law), Arba'ah Turim. This section treats aspects of Jewish law pertinent to finance, torts...
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    section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of halakha (Jewish law), Arba'ah Turim. This section treats aspects of Jewish law related to marriage, divorce...
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    Arukh (and its forerunner, the Beit Yosef) follow the same structure as Arba'ah Turim by Jacob ben Asher. There are four volumes, each subdivided into many...
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  • It has been printed with every edition of the Talmud since 1482. The Arba'ah Turim (lit. "The Four Columns"; the Tur) by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher (1270–1343...
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  • section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of halakha (Jewish law), Arba'ah Turim around 1300. This section treats all aspects of Jewish law not pertinent...
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  • Joseph Karo, is a long and detailed commentary on the Halakhic code Arba'ah Turim ("Tur") by Jacob ben Asher (fl. c. 1300). The Shulchan Aruch, which...
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  • was conceived on a plan similar to Jacob ben Asher's great code, the Arba'ah Turim, which appeared soon afterward and superseded it as a ritual guide on...
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    best known as the author of the Drisha and Prisha commentaries on the Arba'ah Turim as well as Sefer Me'irat Enayim (סמ"ע) on Shulkhan Arukh. His name also...
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  • or Túr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tur or TUR can stand for: Arba'ah Turim, a work of Jewish law, also known as the Tur At-Tur, the 52nd sura of...
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  • name "Simchat Torah"—can be found in the 14th century halachic work Arba'ah Turim. By the 16th century CE, most of the features of the modern celebration...
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    authorities after Alfasi and Maimonides. A more popular résumé, known as the Arba'ah Turim, was written by his son, Jacob ben Asher, though he did not agree with...
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    discussion to codified law – particularly Mishneh Torah (i.e. Maimonides), Arba'ah Turim and Shulchan Aruch – by studying, also, the halakha-focused commentaries...
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    Torah (Hilchot Tefillin u'Mezuzah v'Sefer Torah, Hilchot Tzitzit), on Arba'ah Turim, Beit Yosef on Tur, and Shulchan Arukh. Baladi Rite Yemenite (Teimani)...
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    Ḥadash (lit "new house"), a critical and comprehensive commentary on the Arba'ah Turim of Jacob ben Asher, in which he traced each law to its Talmudic source...
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  • entirely. This opinion is accepted as normative by Rabbeinu Asher, Arba'ah Turim, Sefer HaAguddah, Maharsha, Bayit Chadash, Eliyah Rabbah, and some other...
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    Compare the misunderstanding of "Tur" to mean the entirety of the Arba'ah Turim.[citation needed] In the legal codes, such as Maimonides' Mishneh Torah...
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  • Alexander ha-Kohen Falk; 1555–1614), author of commentaries on the Arba'ah Turim and Shulkhan Arukh Luke Falk (born 1994), American football quarterback...
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    both of which are often published in the back of the Talmud; and the Arba'ah Turim, also known as the Tur, of Rabbi Yaakov ben Asher, a four volume work...
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    being eaten on Rosh Hashanah comes from the 14th-century legal work Arba'ah Turim, which states that German Jews ate apples and honey in order to bring...
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    Jews) do not bury their dead in their tallit. The Shulhan Arukh and the Arba'ah Turim, following the legal opinion of Nahmanides, require burying the dead...
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    the Talmud, Midrash and Geonim. Later codes of Jewish law, such as Arba'ah Turim by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher and Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Yosef Karo, draw...
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    1260–1320), the Orchot Chayyim of Aaron ben Jacob (c. 1250-1325) and the Arba'ah Turim of Jacob ben Asher (c. 1270-1340) mention "inpanada" and "panada" as...
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  • including the Shulḥan Gavoah (Hebrew: שולחן גבוה), a restatement of the Arba'ah Turim and the Shulḥan Arukh to reflect the dominant customs in Thessaloniki...
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  • (Ba'al HaTurim) - 1) (Halachah) Lit. Master of the Rows; Rabbi Yaakov ben Asher, the author of the Arba'ah Turim. 2) (Kabbalah) [Rimzei] Ba'al HaTurim; lit...
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  • historicity by pointing out references to Chassidei Ashkenaz practices in Arba'ah Turim and Sefer ha-Manhig. He further admitted that all of the points questioning...
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    the "Three Pillars of Halakha", as an authority underpinning both the Arba'ah Turim and the Shulkhan Arukh. Rabbi Nissim of Gerona (the RaN) compiled a...
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  • Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha on the 25th of Sivan, as recorded in the Arba'ah Turim (Orach Chaim, Siman 580). Rabbi Aharon Hyman suggests that Rabban Shimon...
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