[1] Ohr HaMeir (among others),3:166, quoted in “Revitalizing Prayer,” p. 55, Reform Judaism Magazine, Fall 2014
[2] Arba'ah Turim “often called simply the Tur, is an important Halakhic code composed by Jacob ben Asher (Cologne, 1270 – Toledo, Spain c. 1340, also referred to as Ba'al Ha-Turim). The four-part structure of the Tur and its division into chapters (simanim) were adopted by the later code Shulchan Aruch….” The above image is c.1300-1350, Sephardi script, international Gothic illumination, Spain or possibly Lombard.
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