Isaac Alfasi

Isaac Alfasi

male, deceased (1103)
Rishonim, maimonides, Gemara, yeshivot, Joseph Karo, Nashim…Arba'ah Turim
Sefer ha-Halachot extracts all the pertinent legal decisions from the three Talmudic orders Moed, Nashim and Nezikin as well as the tractates of...
Jacob ben Asher

Jacob ben Asher

male, deceased (1340)
Rishonim, halakha, hebrew, German, Jewish German history, Medieval rabbi…Arba'ah Turim, "Master of the Turim (Pillars)"
Jacob ben Asher, in Hebrew "Ya'akov ben Asher", (1270-ca 1340) was an influential Medieval rabbinic authority. He is often referred to as the "Baal...
Moses Isserles

Moses Isserles

male, deceased (1572)
Early Acharonim, From Krakow, rabbi, HaMapah, Darkhei Moshe, Moshe Isserlis…Arba'ah Turim
Moses Isserles (or Moshe Isserlis, was a Rabbi and Talmudist, renowned for his fundamental work of "Halakha" (Jewish law), entitled "HaMapah" (lit....
Yoel Sirkis

Yoel Sirkis

male, deceased (1640)
from Medzhybizh, Jerusalem Talmud, polish, talmud, Jewish person, babylonian…Arba'ah Turim
Bayit Chadash, Rabbi Sirkis's best known work, is a major commentary on the "Arba'ah Turim" of Jacob ben Asher. The work presents and elucidates...
Joshua Falk

Joshua Falk

male, deceased (1614)
Ma-HaRWaK, acronym, rafak, Halakhist, Beit Yisrael, Arba'ah Turim
Joshua Falk (also: Joshua ben Alexander HaCohen Falk was a Polish Halakhist and Talmudist, best known as the author of the "Beit Yisrael"...

Aaron ben Jacob Ha-Kohen

male
rabbi, French, Arba'ah Turim, shabbat, Lunel, sabbath
Aaron ben Jacob Ha-Kohen was a French rabbi, one of a family of scholars living at Narbonne, France (not Lunel, as David Conforte and others say),...