Tag Archives: Maimonides

Rambam Machberet

Posted on February 18, 2019 by zjb

Please chime in by way of a “like” in FB if you encountered the Rambam machberet in Hebrew School, growing up and in what years. If I remember correctly, my Maimonides was heavier set. Extra points for anyone who know … Continue reading →

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(Maimonides) Makalah Fi-Sina-At Al-Mantik (Treatise on Logic)

Posted on February 20, 2018 by zjb

In its own way a page-turner, his Treatise on Logic is a useful little guide to Maimonidean thought. This version of the 1938 English translation by Israel Efros for the American Academy of Jewish Research comes with the Arabic original … Continue reading →

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Don’t Sell Guns to Idolators (Maimonides)

Posted on February 17, 2018 by zjb

Apropos to the gun-murders in Florida, holding gun makers liable, and repealing the Second Amendment, this week in shul Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky at Ansche Chesed worked off this little piece of halakhah from the Mishne Torah, the code of law … Continue reading →

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(Abstract Bodies) Balls or Columns or Cubes (Resurrection) (Maimonides)

Posted on July 10, 2017 by zjb

With characteristic confidence, Maimonides is here arguing against what he assumes is the false, nay absurd, notion that human souls would have bodies in the world to come. He thinks the world to come is entirely without nature and natural … Continue reading →

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(Body) Maimonides & Dance (Epistle to Yemen)

Posted on May 17, 2017 by zjb

In the 12th century, Shia forces in Yemen rebelling against Saladin conducted a persecution of the Jewish community. Originally written in Arabic, Maimonides Epistle to Yemen addressed the contemporary challenge of forced apostasy, heresy, and messianic claims. What caught my … Continue reading →

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(Resurrection) Transhumanism (Steven Schwartzschild

Posted on May 9, 2017 by zjb

Forget rationalism, moral radicalism, or “the political.” Messianism entails nothing if not a “philosophy of life,” the resurrection of the dead, the creation of New Man or Extreme Man.  Viewing it from this perspective, I suspect that the esoteric doctrine … Continue reading →

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Poisons, Hemorrhoids, Cohabitation (Maimonides)

Posted on October 12, 2015 by zjb

Worldly and cosmopolitan, this is not the Maimonides I read in graduate school. His short medical writings were translated into English by Fred Rosner for the Maimonides Research Institute in Haifa back in the mid 1980s. For undoubtedly puerile reasons, … Continue reading →

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Globular Maimonides (Rehavia) (Jerusalem)

Posted on January 10, 2015 by zjb

A lot of the streets in the Rehavia neighborhood are named after Spanish Jewish philosophers. This sign indicating a street address on Ben Maimon Street caught my eye. I like its modern form. No less than negative theology, it stands out as … Continue reading →

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Maimonides Selfie

Posted on January 5, 2014 by zjb

The article in Ha’aertz about selfies is way too serious and therefore nowhere near as interesting as the accompanying photograph. “Judaism” has nothing really anything to do with selfies or has anything important to say about them. As for me, … Continue reading →

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A Geographical Biography Of Moses Maimonides (Arab Aesthetic Naturalism) (Joel Kraemer)

Posted on September 25, 2013 by zjb

I just finished reading Joel Kraemer’s biography, Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds. The celebratory subtitle, which is actually kind of listless, conceals an important point having to do with the subject’s geographical place in … Continue reading →

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