B'tzedek online journal has Rambam's Sefer ha-Madda online see: http://www.btzedek.com/scholarship.html ***** ABOUT B'tzedek: B'tzedek, a journal of...
I wanted to share with the forum that I recently received in Brazil a copy of Maimonides' Treatise on Logic, by Israel Efros (1938), which I obtained through...
I have no idea but they deserve some sort of medal for it. There's a page for books they want to digitize should anyone find themself in a position to do so....
I just did a search on "angel" and it works. For maimonideans this is a major breakthrough. We never had had a decent index in any language to the Guide...
I just want to add to what Mr. Grytz said below - I ordered 3 books from Books on Demand and also have no complaints. The softcover books come with a light...
Shaloha: You are invited to the inaugural event of Kol Echad. This Jewish learning symposium, fundraiser, and vacation on sunny Maui, Hawaii, is the launch of...
Listmembers, I was recently re-reading a certain commentary on the Guide when I was pulled up short by a statement by the author. In it he claims that there...
... The problem is what is "rational" and what a "rational commandment" would be. The notion that there are no rational commandments in Maimonides is based on...
Thanks to Kalev for articulating my thoughts. My question to David Wilfinger: who was the commentarist? This question of rationality vs irrationality, as it...
Scott, You guessed who it was: Strauss. I happened to be perusing his Preface to his book on Spinoza when the bit about rational commandments sent me ...
Its been a while since I worked with the preface to Spinoza, a work which is very interesting and has some autobiographical material. If you can give me a...
Scott, After my missive last night I went rooting around and I think that the bit at the beginning of the essay on the Kuzari in PAW is better. It has a couple...
A summary of Maimonides on rationality, which might have some value in this conversation:: The human being poseeses five faculties, the rational, the...
... However, the essence and the existence of god are one and the same, as god cannot be particularized into a "being" per se, but is the highest relative term...
... Strauss on the Kuzari makes it clear that Halevi believed in rational nomoi, i.e., that there are laws that are completely man-made, conventional, but are...
Right. And I follow all of this with little problem or objection. The concern I have is the status of prudence within the context of its products. We speak...
... The laws are rational because they are man-made, and the goodness of the laws are good to the extent that good men make them prudently. The question we are...
I also felt somewhat uncomfortable with Professor Bakan's interpretation: "The prophet can reach beyond the existence toward the essence of God, because of the...
Moses Maimonides Communal Impact, Historic Legacy, An International Symposium On the OCCASION OF THE 800TH ANNIVERSARY OF MAIMONIDES' DEATH ... November 16 ...
Dear Friends, Does anyone know where I can find or purchase the hakdamah to R. Yonah's Shaarei Teshuvah? For some reasons involving controversy about...
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I wrote a paper on this. let me know if you want to read it. Gary <handsacrossthejordan@...> wrote:How does the Rambam explain prophets and prophesy? ...
Listmembers, Shaking off my mid-winter torpor I wanted to pose a question to the learned members of this list. I have read something to the effect that Rambam...
... Perhaps. I do know he calls the Jewish community bnei daat, etc. I am not sure how to translate the word opinion as in "replacing opinion with knowledge"....
Hi Scott, I'm curious about the precedent viz the Tanakh. Genesis 2.17 speaks of the tree of "da'at tov v'ra". And Proverbs 1.7 has "Yirat HaShem reshit...
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