A Guide to the Guide – Rabbi Yaakov Reinman

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welcome to Sparks of History where world history and Jewish history meets today we are very pleased to have with us Rabbi yaakov reinman Rabbi reinman is an accomplished noted writer historian and Scholar monk his works is shufra ishtara a groundbreaking study of famotic contractual law and by reinman is also the author of The extremely popular historical novels the Stroudsburg series Strasburg Saga series written under his pen name avner gold and today we will be discussing Rabbi reinman's highly important work a guide to the guide written together with Rabbi Joseph Cohn a guide as we will see opens up maimonides the rambam's Masterpiece the Moran a guide for the perplexed and as you can see here I ordered the book on Amazon delivered free to the house and urge all of our listeners and viewers who order and read this exceptional work Rabbi Ryan once again thank you so much for joining us today my pleasure just a little bit about your backgrounds and how you became interested in guides for the perplex well I am a lifelong Yeshiva student S I learned a BFG I came here over 50 years ago and that's what I do I learn I learn mostly Tom Wood and I'm a very big devotee of the rambam I the I would say the golden grail I don't know if that's like a non-jewish term of tamura scholarship is to resolve uh the parent contradiction in the rambam has a work called mishna Torah which is a codification of the talmud is full of arguments and debates and discussions and uh more often than not there is no conclusion reached there is no ruling in the talmud and the different

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