David: Thank you for your thoughtful and concise posting. Response (I strive to attain your concision): 1. It would follow from your statements that Moses...
August 5, 2002 Scott, Two things: First, I think your questions go to the nature of the prophecy of Moses. That is, to the prophetic process in connection...
I happened to stumble onto this group and and glad to have done so. Earlier in life, I was a Ph. D. student in the field of the History of Religions at Harvard...
You might look at Leo Strauss. I believe that he and Wolfson hold diametrically opposed views on Maimonides. Strauss it seems to me has more originality as...
... I am a long-time reader of Strauss and I have read his works on Maimonides. While I admire Strauss's work a great deal, I am curious as to why his ...
Well, I also think Wolfson is more useful to Maimonideans than Strauss, although, I think Strauss is more useful to interest moderns in Maimonides. Many of us...
The sefirotic system appears as an acosmological cosmos. How did this come to be? I am reading a recent (1995) book by Moshe Idel, Hasidism, in which he...
... [snip for space] ... There can only be one cosmos in the truest sense, and everything would be a part of it however it is constituted. Today, sadly, we are...
Hello again, Just checking to see if I can post on the Maimonides list using the address that Scott added to the list. One problem that I noticed was that...
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I am pleased to announce the formation of a new group for slow readings of Plato's Apology of Socrates. The discussion leader will be Angela Cembrola who has...
to all my friends. My father, Franklyn Alexander, passed away on 11/26/02 at 11:25 pm. Funeral Arrangements. Levaya: Piser Funeral Home 9200 North Skokie Blvd....
... Dear Scott -- Ha-Maqom yenahem otekha be-tokh sh'ar avilei tziyon ve-yerushalayim! --- David Novak...
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... Barukh haMaqom, Barukh dayan ha emet. yehi ratzon mlfanekha losei shalom bkol haavelim byisroel. Thank you for your kind thoughts and sympathy, which are...
Dear Scott, May G-d comfort you and your family among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. The only comfort for Zion and Jerusalem will be when they are ...
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thank you for your words of hope. While we say that the world-to-come is truly within this-world, I think, especially toward the end, my father came to feel...
Spinoza’s Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish MindDear List Members: Things are rather quiet lately. I received this review today, and I thought it might be...
My view is nuanced by a piece I saw many years ago in Commentary, I do not remember by who. The point the author advanced seemed sensible. more below: ... The...
Scott Alexander wriites: My view is nuanced by a piece I saw many years ago in Commentary, I do not remember by who. The point the author advanced seemed...
Scott and listpeople, What about the influence of Kabbalah on Spinoza? Perhaps his "heresy" was saying publicly what could only be mooted about esoterically....
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Dear Quiet List Members: As you know, we have discussed the relative merits of the two major transations of the Guide for the Perplexed, the Pines and the...
Does anyone know how to get their hands on the new Hebrew edition of the Moreh, as translated from the Arabic by Schwarz, and published by Tel Aviv University?...
... You can order it from www.dbook.co.il They have it for NIS 127.50, plus shipping ($10? That's what it was last time I ordered from the States). Here's a...
I will be away from internet access from August 10 until August 17 (I will be vacationing in a cottage on the shore of the Black Sea in Sarpi -- about 130 km....
Hi all, I began studying the Talmud last year, and had the opportunity to read two very interesting works on Talmud and Logic by R. Moshe Chaim Luzzato, The...
... There is no commercial edition. There was a translation in a journal in the 1930s, which I found at the Harvard Divinity School library. If you want the...
I do not have my copy available to check, but, I believe Prof. Twersky included it in his book, A Maimonides Reader. Also, there is a French translation by...
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