MAIMONIDES ON CREATION OF THE WORLD, BY KENNETH SEESKIN Professor Seeskin of Northwestern University, the editor of the new Cambridge Companion to Maimonides,...
B"H WHERE THE HALACHA IS NOT LIKE RAMBAM Although the Yemenite Jews accepted as a whole the halachic rulings of Rambam, especially where Rambam came to contend...
B"H Here is the continuation of our treatise: 12) Rambam wrote: (Hilkoth Shechita 11: 7-8) "The ordinary custom in Israel [is thus] . . . But if a ligament is...
B"H Here is the continuation of our treatise: 22) Rambam wrote: (Hilkoth Tefillah u'virkath kohanim 9: 5) "And afterwards (i.e. after completing the "Nefillath...
RAMBAM (Maimonides), commentary on Mishnah Sanhedrin, chapter 10: << When the Mashiach dies, his son will rule after him and after that his grandson. >> <<...
Certainly he would accept a childless messiah, because, after all, a messiah is just a king, and there have been childless kings in Jewish History. All it...
Scott Alexander: (does that translate to "Great Scott, man!"?) ... Well, I suppose it depends whose version of halacha rules, but Rambam himself is quite clear...
<< Regarding the wedding dinner: The Rambam (Maimonides) requires separate seating only at the Yom Tov meal where it is a mitzvah to celebrate with wine. Mixed...
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Oct 1, 2007 12:05 pm
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I have just posted an article to the listserve's database which should merit the attention of all members. The article is an originally Hebrew article by...
Listmembers know I have long complained about the Pines translation of the Guide. I am aware that scholars prefer it over the Friedlander translation, and I...
Listmembers know I have long complained about the Pines translation of the Guide. I am aware that scholars prefer it over the Friedlander translation, and I...
yeasher kochacha! thanks for sending me this!! best, jed ... From: Scott Alexander To: Maimonides List Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:35 PM Subject:...
Jed Abraham
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Oct 11, 2007 1:11 am
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I would like to thank Mr. Alexander for his post, with which I concur completely. I want to point out that when Aquinas came to this problem of creation and...
Dear Mr. Pehme and Mr. Alexander, God is prior to matter and creates the things that move, yes? So, Creation is prior to the matter and the things that move....
From: "Dan Watkins" <dwatkins9@...> To: <maimonides@yahoogroups.com> ... To many medieval thinkers, "prior" did not exclusively imply temporal precedence....
He would have read it in Latin, in the wonderfully named "Doctor Perplexorum." When I grow up I want to be a Doctor Perplexorum. Thankyou, Scott...
Scott Alexander
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Oct 11, 2007 7:14 pm
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Thank you for looking it up. Muhdath is virtually cognate to the Hebrew Mekhudash. I know what Pines meant when he said "creation in time." It was his way of...
Scott Alexander
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Oct 11, 2007 7:20 pm
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... No, no and again no. To create is not to move matter. Time occurs when matter moves, not when G-d "moves" because G-d never moves, if He moved he would...
Scott Alexander
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Oct 11, 2007 7:29 pm
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A good response, Hannu. There is a chapter in the Guide, I do not recall which, in which M says that the Kalam should not get bent out of shape because he is...
Scott Alexander
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Oct 11, 2007 7:32 pm
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Dear Mr. Alexander, Thanks for your patience with what probably seems like naive questions or difficulties. ... Ok, I sort of get that ....but... Things...
PS: If we reject "human language," with what are we left? If there is no "bridge" between the human and the divine, if God is really simply ineffable, then...
These are all excellent questions. Let me come back with this one: Does G-d speak to Himself in human language? I can hear several responses....
Scott Alexander
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Oct 11, 2007 10:01 pm
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Dear Mr. Toyryla, I tried to respond to this earlier, but it didn't post. Let me try again. At the risk of getting ensnared in another grammar problem, I think...
... Not at all. ... That is the problem with a wholly immanent deity as in Spinoza's "G-d or Nature." It is the reason they put him in kherem. ... Right. He...
... Dan I agree with you that usually, especially in our days, the notion of causality also implies temporality. It also seems that in the middle ages, most...
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