7. The Controversies over Maimonides (History of Sephardic Jewry)

[@Elepescu]

I cannot believe that I have access to all these lectures as a subscriber member. I feel that I landed in a gold mine.

[@mynameisnotyours888]

Nor I and, me too

[@NetzachUmholtz]

Dido Amigo

[@esty6374]

Meeee too

[@Nudnik1]

תודה רבה שלום

[@williamrobbins5562]

Professors Abramsons contention that the Rambam and others wrote in Judeo Arabic because their Hebrew vocabulary when it came to complex topics was so limited is questionable. The standard reason for why they wrote in Judeo Arabic is because they wanted the unlearned masses to understand what they wrote. There were piyutim written in very complex Hebrew at that time. Moreover if their Hebrew vocabulary was so limited then how did Samuel Ibn Tibbon who lived in the very same time as the Rambam manage to translate everything he and other major Rabbinic figures wrote in Judeo Arabic into Hebrew? Why didn’t Ibn Tibbon have the exact same limitations?

[@zdzislawmeglicki2262]

"Teaching Tanakh should be free…" Wasn't this the custom in Judea still back in the first century CE and before? The Rabbis were all expected to have a real job, and to teach Tanakh without charging for it. So, Maimonides merely invoked the old tradition.

[@nastaranmsh2167]

Why do I not have access to the lecture on King David??

[@CarlosRoberto-gm6wd]

Please release Portuguese subtitles on KZbin

[@deenalaxgorin7574]

Your story of you lecture at The Van Leer Institute is hilarious.

[@markbr5898]

Regarding the play on words, "petit" / "peti", I suspect that at that time the final "t" would still have been pronounced.

[@davidmarroyo1]

Absolute treasure

[@edytaczarnecka3906]

Dziękuję. Serdecznie pozdrawiam

[@davidsavage6324]

Easy fast for anyone fasting in honor of Sigd falling on Shabbos yesterday.

[@menachemrosenthal8356]

The rambam doesnt write about the rising of the dead in the guide to the perplexed, and the raavad never attacked the rambam about that (the ramah and others did). Aristotle does say that some sides are more dangerous, and therefore sometimes one needs to go more to one side. So what the rambam says about anger and pride, does have a source in Aristotle. What was mentioned about the rising of Shmuel from the dead in the name of the rambam, is brought down by the radak there in name of rav Shmuel chofni gaon. The rashba said that the rambams works were exluded and one can learn them before 25. A number of mistakes I think.

[@WomanFromTheMoon]

Sooo many interpretations! what is left from the original? every rabbi contributed their own perception and everyone can choose who to follow?! all this is very strange... everything is written directly and clearly in the Torah.

[@suzanamalavasic4237]

I really, really enjoy your lectures and I am thankful that through your skill a teacher, I have been able to learn so much about Jewish history. However, I think that it would be very good if you were to research who the Albigensians actually were. They famously believed that there were not one, but two Gods-the good God of Heaven and the evil god of the material world.. According to tradition, they believed that the good God was the God of the New Testament faith and creator of the spiritual realm. There is an underlying element of Gnosticism, which allowed for the concept that while living on evil earth there was a way that some humans could become "perfect". They regarded water as unclean because it had been corrupted by the earth. Thus, they rejected baptism and practiced a ceremony known as "consolamentum' involving the "laying on of hands" done by other "perfectus". If one who became a perfectus, began showing signs of returning to the "dark side", this one had to be smothered to death, in order to insure their entry into heaven. The choice of the Catholic Church to mount a Crusade and slaughter men, women and children can never be justified. However, to say that the Albigensians, who considered themselves good Catholics, were in reality Christians, is inaccurate.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Very interesting!

[@lauraberlin1987]

Shanah tovah u metukah

[@AaronMiller-rh7rj]

👍❗️

[@kdot9929]

It wasn’t Crito who was there during the hemlock consumption by Socrates and not Plato? I swear I thought it was Crito this whole time. Charging money to teach Torah should not be practiced. The Ramban certainly was correct. You can’t make a living out of something like Torah teaching. You aren’t Hashem or Moses so charging money to teach their word should be frowned upon. ERETZ ISRAEL ✡️🇮🇱✡️🇮🇱✡️🇮🇱❤️