Ebook: Crafting the 613 Commandments : Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Spiritual Commandments
Author: Albert D. Friedberg
- Tags: Maimonides Moses -- 1135-1204., Jewish philosophy., Philosophy Medieval., Judaism.
- Series: Holocaust: History and Literature Ethics and Philosophy
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Academic Studies Press
- City: Boston, MA, United States
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a work that serves as a prolegemenon to the Mishneh Torah, his monumental code of law. This book explores the surprising way Maimonides put this tradition to use and his possible rationale for using such a tradition. It also explores many of the philosophical and ethical ideas animating the composition of such a list. In the book's second half, Friedberg examines the manner by which Maimonides formulated positive commandments in the Mishneh Torah, leading him to suggest new dimensions in Maimonides' legal theory.
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