Maimonides' Introduction to His Commentary on the Mishnah - Hardcover

Maimonides, Moses

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568212410 ISBN 13: 9781568212418

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1994

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From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

Fred Rosner, MD, MACP, is a professor of medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, New York.

Moses Maimonides (1135 1204) was a rabbi, theologian, andphysician, in Moorish Spain and then in Egypt, and is consideredby many as the greatest medieval Jewish philosopher.

Fred Rosner, MD, MACP, is a professor of medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1568212410
• ISBN 13: 9781568212418
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 188