Science in the Bet Midrash : Studies in Maimonides

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Published by Academic Studies Press Apr 2009, 2009

1934843210 / 9781934843215

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Neuware - What is the secret that Maimonides hides He himself tells us: therabbis of the Talmud used the expression ma'aseh bereshit ('Accountof Creation') for what the Greeks called physics and usedthe expression ma'aseh merkavah ('Account of the Chariot') orwhat the Greeks called metaphysics. So why is this important Theconsequences of these equations are momentous. Maimonidesimports what we today would call science into the heart of Torah.This is allied to his universalism and to his conception of the commandmentsof the Torah as tools (which could in principle havebeen different), whose importance lies in the end they serve, andnot in themselves. That being the case, true reward and punishmentare not connected to behavior, no matter how saintly or howvile, but to proper conceptions of God, crystallized in the 'ThirteenPrinciples'.Maimonides hid these secrets from his fellow Jews, not out offear of reprisal (protected as he was by his good friend, al-Qadial-Fadl, he had no reason to fear them), but out of noblesse oblige.Exposing simple Jews (and their philosophically no less simplerabbis) to these truths could only lead to perplexity (in the best ofcircumstances) or to falling away from observance (in the worst ofcircumstances), neither of which Maimonides had any interest inpromoting.One God wrote two books, as it were: Torah and Cosmos. The trulydevout Jew realizes that he or she must study both books, or onlyhave access to half of God's oeuvre.Born and educated in the United States, Menachem Kellner (Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 1973) has lived in Israel for the last 30 years. Author, editor, or translator of 16 books and over 100 scholarly articles,Kellner's most recent book is 'Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism' (2006).…

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Science in the Bet Midrash : Studies in Maimonides
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Menachem Kellner
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Academic Studies Press Apr 2009
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2009
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English
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1934843210
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