It is not well known, but the work is actually not a commentary on the Talmud but is rather a commentary on the Rif, and always starts with the text of the Rif ( see Shach quoted in Kellolei HoRif, Rabbeinu Osher, ViTur printed before the Rosh on Shabbos, Klal 2 ).

His most important work, Rosh Amanah (" The Pinnacle of Faith "), defends Maimonides ' thirteen articles of belief against attacks of Hasdai Crescas and Yosef Albo.

According to the Talmud ( tractate Megillah 22b ), women are exempt from work on Rosh Chodesh, and Rashi, in commenting on this passage, delineates the activities from which they may refrain: spinning, weaving, and sewing — the skills that women contributed to the building of the Mishkan ( Tabernacle ).

The newspaper Al-Ittihad reported that four men stabbed an Arab worker on his way to work at a supermarket in Rosh HaAyin.

A characteristic instance of his vacillation is afforded by his most important religious work, the " Rosh Amanah " ( The Pinnacle of Faith ), based on Cant.

In 1990, Rosh and Eberhard Jäckel were awarded the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis for their joint work, Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland.

In 1990, Jäckel and Lea Rosh were awarded the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis for their work, Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland.

Regarding the access that his work provides, Rabbi Steinsaltz says:

Rabbi Steinsaltz's classic work of Kabbalah, The Thirteen Petalled Rose, was first published in 1980 and now appears in eight languages.

A Polish Kabbalist, writing in about 1630 – 1650, reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thus: " And I have heard, in a certain and explicit way, from several respectable persons that one man close to our time, whose name is R. Eliyahu, the master of the name, who made a creature out of matter Golem and form tzurah and it performed hard work for him, for a long period, and the name of emet was hanging upon his neck, until he finally removed it for a certain reason, the name from his neck and it turned to dust.

This work superseded Rabbi Alfasi's and has been printed with almost every subsequent edition of the Talmud.

Yalkut Yosef, by Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, is a voluminous, widely cited and contemporary work of Halakha, based on the rulings of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

Based on the same core material as Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael, it followed a second route of commentary and editing, and eventually emerged as a distinct work.

The Sifra work follows the tradition of Rabbi Akiva with additions from the School of Rabbi Ishmael.

A third such work was that of Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel ( d. 1327 ).

* Rabbi Yitchaki Alfassi finishes writing the Rif, an important work of Jewish law.

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz writes that " If the Bible is the cornerstone of Judaism, then the Talmud is the central pillar ... No other work has had a comparable influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life, shaping influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life " and states:

A classical rabbinic work, Avoth de-Rabbi Natan, states: " One time, when Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai was walking in Jerusalem with Rabbi Yehosua, they arrived at where the Temple in Jerusalem now stood in ruins.

This work resembles the Hilchot of the Rif ( Rabbi Isaac Alfasi )-also an adumbration-but differs in quoting later authorities: Maimonides, the Tosafists and Alfasi himself.

Maaseh Hoshev is sometimes mistakenly referred to as Sefer Hamispar ( The Book of Number ), which is an earlier and less sophisticated work by Rabbi Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra ( 1090 – 1167 ).

Rabbi Salanter set an example for the Lithuanian Jewish community during the cholera epidemic of 1848, making sure that necessary relief work on Shabbat for Jews was done by Jews ( despite the ordinary prohibition against doing work on Shabbat ), and ordering Jews whose lives were in danger to eat rather than fast on the fast day of Yom Kippur.

Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai is accredited with having composed the Kabalistic work The Zohar ( literally " The Shining "-hence the custom of lighting fire to commemorate him ).

; 1013 – 1073: Rabbi Yitchaki Alfassi ( from Morocco, later Spain ) writes the Rif, an important work of Jewish law.

The teachings of the maggid are recorded in his published work titled Maggid Meisharim, although Rabbi Chaim Joseph David Azulai notes that only about one fiftieth of the manuscript was ever published, ( see Works ).

Isserles ' student, Rabbi Yehoshua Falk HaKohen published Sefer Me ' irath Enayim ( on Choshen Mishpat, abbreviated as Sema ) several decades after the main work.

The Mishna Berura, the main work of halakha by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan ( the " Chafetz Chaim ") is a collation of the opinions of later authorities on the Orach Chayim section of the Shulchan Aruch.

Aruch HaShulchan, by Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, is a more analytical work attempting the same task from a different angle, and covering all sections of the Shulchan Aruch.

These include Rabbi Meir Margolius, chief rabbi of Lemberg and later Ostroha, and author of Meir Netivim ( a work of halachic responsa ) and other works ; Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Hakohen, rabbi of Polnoy ; Rabbi Dovid Halperin, rabbi of Ostroha ; Rabbi Israel of Satinov, author of Tiferet Yisrael ; Rabbi Yoseph Heilperin of Slosowitz ; and Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezrich ( AKA the Maggid of Mezritch ) to whose great authority as a Talmudist it was chiefly due that Besht ’ s doctrines ( though in an essentially altered form ) were introduced into learned circles.

Ben Asher followed Maimonides's precedent in arranging his work in a topical order, however, the Tur covers only those areas of Jewish religious law that were in force in the author's time.

The work of David J. Asher, Armagh Observatory and Robert H. McNaught, Siding Spring Observatory and independently by Esko Lyytinen in 1999, following on from the Kazan research, is considered by most meteor experts as the breakthrough in modern analysis of meteor storms.

Rabbenu Asher ’ s best known work is his abstract of Talmudic law.

Asher ’ s son Jacob compiled a list of the decisions found in the work, under the title Piskei Ha-ROSH ( decisions of the ROSH ).

As he began work on the new project, Pet Sounds, Wilson formed a temporary songwriting partnership with lyricist Tony Asher.

On 27 May 1965, McCartney and Asher flew to Lisbon for a holiday in Albufeira, Algarve, and he borrowed an acoustic guitar from Bruce Welch, in whose house they were staying, and completed the work on " Yesterday ".

Throughout the mid-1840s he also attended classes at the National Academy of Design, and studied the work of Hudson River School artists Thomas Cole and Asher Durand ; " If ", Inness later recalled thinking, " these two can be combined, I will try.

In his 1970 work, The Kornilov Affair: A Reinterpretation, Harvey Asher suggests that Kerensky and Kornilov had an agreement to use the military to restore order within Russia.

Among the artists to work here were Asher B. Durand and Benjamin Champney, the latter known to paint Mount Washington while sitting in the middle of Main Street.

Later codes of Jewish law, e. g. Arba ' ah Turim by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher and Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Yosef Karo, draw heavily on Maimonides ' work, and in both whole sections are often quoted verbatim.

* Florida hires firm founded by man implicated in drug-smuggling to fight terror, CNews. canoe. ca: " Hank Asher is founder of Seisint, Inc., an information-technology company with a $ 1. 6-million contract with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to work on a pilot program for the Matrix network, through which sensitive information on terrorism and other crime suspects would be exchanged.

In 1855, the museum officially designated a collection of American Art, with the first work commissioned for the collection being a landscape painting by Asher B. Durand.

In his work Sefer Dikdukei ha Te ' amim, Aaron ben Asher wrote, " The prophets ... complete the Torah, are as the Torah, and we decide Law from them as we do from the Torah.

In his work Sefer Diqduqei HaTe ‘ amim, Aharon ben Asher wrote, " The prophets ... complete the Torah, are as the Torah, and we decide Law from them as we do from the Torah.

The study of the Shittah is particularly valuable for understanding the Tosafists, because the work contains some of the older and inedited Tosafot ; besides, glosses of R. Asher ben Jehiel and of the disciples of R. Perez are partly contained in it.

* Winner: Ellen Asher ( for work at SFBC )

Of these, only Asher ben Jehiel had non-Sephardic roots, having lived most of his life in Germany before moving to Spain, but even so, his work is largely Sephardic in orientation.

Around his chair were gathered Simḥah b. Samuel, R. Shamuel b. Meïr ( Rashbam ), and Shemaya, his grandsons ; likewise Shemaria, Judah b. Nathan, and Isaac Levi b. Asher, all of whom continued his work.

In 1961 he was accepted into Clare College, Cambridge to study Natural Sciences, graduating in 1964 and immediately beginning work in the university Department of Biochemistry under Asher Korner, working with scientists such as Louis Reichardt and Tony Hunter.

The Rebbe asks Asher ’ s father to travel to Vienna, since it would make his work easier.

However, the gift finally calls upon Asher to paint his masterpiece — a work which uses the symbolism of the crucifixion to express his mother's torment.

Rivkeh doesn ’ t always understand Asher ’ s art work.

Yitzchok is one of the first to recognize that Asher ’ s ability can make a fortune, and he invests in his work.