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          Jacob ben Asher

          German rabbinic authority (c.

          1269 - c. 1343)

          Jacob ben Asher (c. 1270–1340), also known as Ba'al ha-Turim as well as Yaakov ben haRosh, was an influential Medievalrabbinic authority.

          The author is simply known as "Baal Haturim" meaning "Author of the Turim" (see explanation further on).

        1. The author is simply known as "Baal Haturim" meaning "Author of the Turim" (see explanation further on).
        2. Binding/Format: Hardcover Sub Category: Adult Biographies and Memoirs, Baal Haturim Commentary on the Torah or 26 others.
        3. The Torah with the Baal Haturim classic commentary translated, annotated, and elucidated by Rabbi Sheah Brander, Rabbi Avie Gold, Rabbi Eliyahu Tauger.
        4. The Ba'al HaTurim comments: “This is the sixth commandment and it consists of six letters to tell you that man was created on the sixth day.”.
        5. This masterpiece is explained, annotated, and broadened.

          6. He is often referred to as the Ba'al ha-Turim ("Author of the Turim"), after his main work, the Arba'ah Turim ("Four Columns").

          Biography

          He was probably born in the Holy Roman Empire at Cologne about 1270 and probably died at Toledo, then in the Kingdom of Castile, in 1340.[1][2][3]

          He was the third son of the Asher ben Jehiel (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 Turim his elder brother Jehiel; once his brother Judah[4] and once his uncle Chaim.[5]

          Some say Jacob succeeded his father as the rabbi of the Jewish c