Maimonides' Introduction to His Commentary on the Mishnah - Hardcover

Moses Maimonides

 
9781568212418: Maimonides' Introduction to His Commentary on the Mishnah
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1568212410 ISBN 13: 9781568212418
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. (UK), 1994

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Moses Maimonides (1138-1204), physician, scientist, astronomer, philosopher, and theologian, emerged as a halakhist through his classic work, Commentary on the Mishnah, in which he sets out to explain to the layman the meaning and the purpose of the Mishnah, while bypassing the often complicated and concentrated discussions of the Gemara. It was Maimonides' wish to popularize the Mishnah and to make it easily accessible to the general reader. He did so by extracting the underlying principles involved in lengthy, often abstract, talmudic discussions and stating the halakhic decisions derived therein, interspersing them with ethical insights and philosophical teachings.

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Publisher
Jason Aronson, Inc. (UK)
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1568212410
ISBN 13 
9781568212418
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
188