Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Maimonides Writings

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okay talking about Maimonides what I propose to do in this hour over the next few weeks is to go through as much of my manatees laws of Cuba as possible surely sometimes translated as repentance but that's not a wrong translation as we will see this is preparation for rosh hashanah Yom Kippur is the way we repair mistakes that have been made and we are going to look at his texts in translation I will go through it piece by piece today I'd like to start with an introduction to whom my monetise was what kind of scholar he was what kind of thinker he was what his place was in Jewish history she was thought and then tomorrow we'll start with the actual text I remember when I was in high school about 103 years ago they had a list of 12 people in the history of the world each of whom knew everything there was to know in his culture like Aristotle my monitor is one of the twelve he lived in Spain and then in Egypt he had visited her to throw and he mastered everything in medieval Arabic culture including their works on their own works on philosophy and the translations of Aristotle and Plato into Arabic which were plentiful at that time and history and other religions and whatever there was to mathematics astronomy whatever there was to know he knew now when a secular story and says that for him that's a whole universe but he hasn't got a clue what it means to master all of the Jewish information honorees was a consummate master of all the Jewish information that was available at his time not only did he

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2. 3:56laws of purity which were not practiced and which prior commentators tended to skip or deal…
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7. 24:15I got a book of his cuz I manatees on the creation of the world it's…
8. 27:54the exceptions all five of these are exceptions but all exceptions and the law is not…
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