May G-d be blessed, I have had the great good fortune to have finally come into possession of the first one volume edition of the Friedlander translation of...
B"H Maimonides writes in his Code of Jewish Law (Halachoth Melakhim 9:10) that "blood is permitted" unto non-Jews. He does not say if this refers to eating....
GUIDE 1:74 KALAM’S SEVEN ARGUMENTS FOR CREATION EX NIHILO Chapters 74-76 rehearse and consolidate the Kalam arguments for the four doctrines necessary to...
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GUIDE 1:75 THE FIVE KALAM ARGUMENTS FOR THE UNITY OF G-D This brief and very allusive chapter requires explanation that Maimonides does not provide to...
GUIDE 1:76 THE THREE KALAM ARGUMENTS AGAINST DIVINE CORPOREALITY The first book of the Guide of the Perplexed has two themes: divine incorporeality, and the...
... [snip] I disagree. Maimonides's god is Aristotle's god; there is no fundamental difference. The difference is that the theos of Maimonides creates the...
My last post concludes my "slow reading" of the first volume of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, the Moreh Ha-Nevukhim. These essays grew out of a class, a...
That would be 3/18, not 3/15. Also I neglected to mention that I have a working title. I am thinking of calling it, with some chutzpah, THE GUIDE, An...
... Although I have hardly participated in your reading, I am grateful for it and I have read every word with delight. I have learned a great deal from it, and...
Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. If you want to say that that Maimonides' G-d and Aristotle's are the same, that is a case that can be made, although I do...
Keep "beaming us up" Scotty...into the world of the active intellect. I'm sure many people will want to see this someday bound and sold on amazon! Best...
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Mar 16, 2006 7:31 pm
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Thank you, and best wishes, Scott...
Scott Alexander
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Mar 17, 2006 11:57 pm
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the maimonides group. File : /Iggereth...
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Mar 24, 2006 11:18 am
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... I haven't yet looked at the blog, but your quotation is essentially accurate. The Rambam's commitment was to truth. Part of his campaign in the Guide is...
Scott Alexander
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Apr 18, 2006 1:41 pm
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I am sensitive that most do not agree with the point of view that I have consistently advanced since the commencement of this listserve that there is a...
Does anyone know if the Leeser Bible translation is available online? I see that several outfits are hawking CD's with it so I suppose some site must have it...
A slow reading of Plato's Timaeus is just now getting started on my plato-timaeus list. If you would like to join it, you may subscribe by sending email to ...
The Legacy of Maimonides Religion, Reason and Community 800th Anniversary Commemorative Collection 320 pages, $26.95 Buy it now Edited by Yamin Levy and Shalom...
Scott Alexander
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Jul 6, 2006 5:49 pm
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Access the full Jastrow online & indexed <<http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/jastrow/>http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/jastrow/> Scott...
Scott Alexander
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Jul 27, 2006 6:23 pm
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/temaniheritage is a new group that has info. about and explores the rich yemenite jewish heritage. All are welcome to join....
I found that reviewing and rewriting what I had previously written on the first section of the Guide is a more massive undertaking than expected. Since Purim...
INTRODUCTION TO THE GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED THE WELL, THE PEARL AND THE GOLDEN APPLE "The first purpose of this Treatise is to explain the meanings of certain...
Well, I apologize. I used to be able to save material in an old Microsoft Word Text format called "ans." which allowed me to format indents which would...
INTRODUCTION TO THE GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED THE WELL, THE PEARL AND THE GOLDEN APPLE "The first purpose of this Treatise is to explain the meanings of certain...
B"H Maimonides, in his "Epistle to Yemen," had this to say about the Moslem religion: "Without question, we are now experiencing the pangs of the Messiah… ...
... thank you for your note. I am interested in seeing that you are able to use hebrew characters now in the way Yahoo is publishing your letter. As for his...
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