Works
- Arba'ah Turim, one of the most important halachic books of all times.
- Sefer ha-Remazim, or "Kitzur Piske ha-Rosh" (Constantinople, 1575), an abridgment of his father's compendium of the Talmud, in which he condensed his father's decisions, omitting the casuistry.
- Rimze Ba'al ha-Turim (Constantinople, 1500), a commentary on the Pentateuch, which is printed in virtually all Jewish editions of the Pentateuch. This concise commentary consists of mystical and symbolical references in the Torah text (see Masoretic text), often using gematria and acronyms as well as other occurrences of particular words elsewhere in the Torah.
- Perush Al ha-Torah, a less known commentary on the Pentateuch (Zolkiev, 1806), taken mainly from Nachmanides, but without his cabalistic and philosophical interpretations. Jacob quotes many other commentators, among them Saadia Gaon, Rashi, Joseph Dara and Abraham ibn Ezra.
- Works of Jacob ben Ascher in the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke.
- Baal HaTurim Chumash,' ' Davis Edition by Artscroll - Torah with the Baal HaTurim's Classic Commentary - Hebrew/English. ISBN 1-57819-128-9
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