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Mishneh Torah The Mishneh Torah (: מִשְׁנֵה תּוֹרָה‎, 'Repetition of the Torah'), subtitled Sefer Yad ha-Hazaka (ספר יד החזקה 'Book of the Strong Hand'), is a of ( ) authored by ( Moshe ben Maimon, also known as RaMBaM or 'Rambam'), one of history's foremost rabbis. The Mishneh Torah was compiled between 1170 and 1180 (4930–4940), while Maimonides was living in, and is regarded as Maimonides'. Accordingly, later sources simply refer to the work as ' Maimon', ' Maimonides' or ' RaMBaM', although Maimonides composed other works. Mishneh Torah consists of fourteen books, subdivided into sections, chapters, and paragraphs. Premium gerador. It is the only -era work that details all of Jewish observance, including those laws that are only applicable when the is in existence, and remains an important work in Judaism. Its title is an appellation originally used for the Biblical book of, and its subtitle, 'Book of the Strong Hand,' derives from its subdivision into fourteen books: the numerical value fourteen, when represented as the Hebrew letters Yod (10) Dalet (4), forms the word yad ('hand'). Maimonides intended to provide a complete statement of the, so that a person who mastered first the and then the Mishneh Torah would be in no need of any other book.

Contemporary reaction was mixed, with strong and immediate opposition focusing on the absence of sources and the belief that the work appeared to be intended to supersede study of the. Maimonides responded to these criticisms, and the Mishneh Torah endures as an influential work in Jewish religious thought. According to several authorities, a decision may not be rendered in opposition to a view of Maimonides, even where he apparently militated against the sense of a Talmudic passage, for in such cases the presumption was that the words of the Talmud were incorrectly interpreted.

Likewise: 'One must follow Maimonides even when the latter opposed his teachers, since he surely knew their views, and if he decided against them he must have disapproved their interpretation.' . See:. ^ 'Yad Mal'akhi', rule 26 and 27, p. 186. Preface to the Mishneh Torah. Yad, Hilkhot Talmud Torah 1:11.

Leslie, Donald. The Survival of the Chinese Jews; The Jewish Community of Kaifeng. Tʻoung pao, 10. Leiden: Brill, 1972, p. 157.

Pollak, Michael. Mandarins, Jews, and Missionaries: The Jewish Experience in the Chinese Empire.

The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1980, p. 413.

Pollak, Mandarins, Jews, and Missionaries, pp. 297–298. Twersky, Isadore. A Maimonides Reader.

Behrman House. Inc., 1972, pp. 481–482. Katz, Nathan and Ellen S. The Last Jews of Cochin: Jewish Identity in Hindu India. University of South Carolina Press, p. 40.

Birnbaum, Philip (1944). Maimonides' Mishneh Torah: Yad Hazakah. Hebrew Pub Co. Hyamson, Moses (1981). The book of adoration (according to the Bodleian (Oxford) codex) (New, corr. Jerusalem: Feldheim. Touger, Eliyahu; Maimonides.

Horowitz, Mayer Alter Halevi, Rabbi (2006). 'English Edition of the Rambam: with Perush HaMeir'. The Nesher Hagodol Legacy Foundation Publications. 1 (1): 32 pages. External links. – full text in Hebrew; includes list of Mitzvot and the corroborative glosses and the animadversions of the Ra’avad.

Maimonides Mishneh Torah English Online

– full text in English, chabad.org/library (in English). (English/Hebrew). (Hebrew). (English). – links to translations and resources. from www.torah.org.

Mishneh Torah The Mishneh Torah (: מִשְׁנֵה תּוֹרָה‎, 'Repetition of the Torah'), subtitled Sefer Yad ha-Hazaka (ספר יד החזקה 'Book of the Strong Hand'), is a of ( ) authored by ( Moshe ben Maimon, also known as RaMBaM or 'Rambam'), one of history's foremost rabbis. The Mishneh Torah was compiled between 1170 and 1180 (4930–4940), while Maimonides was living in, and is regarded as Maimonides'. Accordingly, later sources simply refer to the work as ' Maimon', ' Maimonides' or ' RaMBaM', although Maimonides composed other works. Mishneh Torah consists of fourteen books, subdivided into sections, chapters, and paragraphs.

It is the only -era work that details all of Jewish observance, including those laws that are only applicable when the is in existence, and remains an important work in Judaism. Its title is an appellation originally used for the Biblical book of, and its subtitle, 'Book of the Strong Hand,' derives from its subdivision into fourteen books: the numerical value fourteen, when represented as the Hebrew letters Yod (10) Dalet (4), forms the word yad ('hand'). Maimonides intended to provide a complete statement of the, so that a person who mastered first the and then the Mishneh Torah would be in no need of any other book. Contemporary reaction was mixed, with strong and immediate opposition focusing on the absence of sources and the belief that the work appeared to be intended to supersede study of the.

Maimonides responded to these criticisms, and the Mishneh Torah endures as an influential work in Jewish religious thought. According to several authorities, a decision may not be rendered in opposition to a view of Maimonides, even where he apparently militated against the sense of a Talmudic passage, for in such cases the presumption was that the words of the Talmud were incorrectly interpreted. Likewise: 'One must follow Maimonides even when the latter opposed his teachers, since he surely knew their views, and if he decided against them he must have disapproved their interpretation.' . See:.

^ 'Yad Mal'akhi', rule 26 and 27, p. 186. Preface to the Mishneh Torah. Yad, Hilkhot Talmud Torah 1:11. Leslie, Donald. The Survival of the Chinese Jews; The Jewish Community of Kaifeng.

Tʻoung pao, 10. Leiden: Brill, 1972, p. 157. Pollak, Michael. Mandarins, Jews, and Missionaries: The Jewish Experience in the Chinese Empire. The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1980, p.

413. Pollak, Mandarins, Jews, and Missionaries, pp. 297–298.

Twersky, Isadore. A Maimonides Reader. Behrman House. Inc., 1972, pp. 481–482. Katz, Nathan and Ellen S. The Last Jews of Cochin: Jewish Identity in Hindu India.

University of South Carolina Press, p. 40. Birnbaum, Philip (1944).

Maimonides' Mishneh Torah: Yad Hazakah. Hebrew Pub Co. Hyamson, Moses (1981). The book of adoration (according to the Bodleian (Oxford) codex) (New, corr. Jerusalem: Feldheim.

Touger, Eliyahu; Maimonides. Horowitz, Mayer Alter Halevi, Rabbi (2006). 'English Edition of the Rambam: with Perush HaMeir'. The Nesher Hagodol Legacy Foundation Publications. 1 (1): 32 pages. External links.

– full text in Hebrew; includes list of Mitzvot and the corroborative glosses and the animadversions of the Ra’avad. – full text in English, chabad.org/library (in English). (English/Hebrew). (Hebrew). (English). – links to translations and resources.

from www.torah.org.