Arba’ah Turim [Rabbinic Code of Law]

<< Jacob ben Asher’s Tur. A Rare and Important German Edition.>> A fundamental Rabbinic treatise embracing all the laws and customs incumbent both on an individual and the community as a whole. Its over riding authority has been recognized and accepted by Jewish scholars for generations. The publisher praises this edition on the title-page as follows: “All previous editions of the Turim have faults and are crippled… especially the last two parts… I called upon my son-in-law Yoseph bar Yakar and told him… you are a scholar, dig into the depths of the halacha… you must repair the problems. …We obtained a Tur that was checked and corrected by our teacher, HaGaon R. Abraham of Prague the “Light of our Generation” and compared every page two or three times.” <<The present copy complete with the rare two leaf index at end which Steinschneider notes is frequently missing. @