Mishneh Torah itself has been the subject of a number of commentaries: Kesef Mishné by Yosef Karo, Mishné la-Melech, Lechem Mishné, Radvaz and Hagahot Maimoni ( which details Ashkenazi customs ).

Later works ( e. g. Yosef Karo's " Kesef Mishné ") set out to find sources for Maimonides ' decisions, and to resolve any disputes between him and the Raavad.

In his work Mishneh Torah ( 1178 ), Maimonides included a chapter " Sanctification of the New Moon ", in which he discusses the calendrical rules and their scriptural basis.

* The Mishneh Torah ( also known as the Yad HaHazaka for its 14 volumes ; " yad " has a numeric value of 14 ), by Maimonides ( Rambam ; 1135 – 1204 ).

This includes manuscript material for his books Guide to Jewish Religious Practice ( 1979 ), The Ten Commandments in a Changing World ( 1963 ), The Anguish and the Ecstasy of a Jewish Chaplain ( 1974 ), and his translation of The Code of Maimonides ( Mishneh Torah ): Book 7, The Book of Agriculture ( 1979 ).

The highest level, halachah ( law ), consists of collating the opinions set out in the Talmud with those of the halachic codes such as the Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch, so as to study the Talmud as a source of law.

Maimonides, in his Commentary to the Mishna ( preface to chapter " Chelek ", Tractate Sanhedrin ), and is his Mishneh Torah, ( in the Laws of the foundations of the Torah, ch.

Though man ought to be penitent every day ( Mishna Avoth Chap 2, 10 ; Talmud Shabbath 153a ), the first ten days of every year are the acceptable time announced by the prophet ( Isaiah 55: 6 ): " Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near " ( Talmud Rosh Hashan 18a ; Mishneh Torah Teshuva 2: 6 ).

The Mishneh Torah was compiled between 1170 and 1180 ( 4930-4940 ), while Maimonides was living in Egypt, and is regarded as Maimonides ' magnum opus.

Today, thousands of Orthodox Jews, particularly Chabad Hasidim, participate in one of the annual study cycles of Mishneh Torah ( 1 or 3 chapters a day ), innovated by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in the spring of 1984.

As for halakha l ' maaseh ( practical application of Jewish law ), although the majority of Jews keep Jewish law according to various other Rabbinic codes organized around the Shulchan Aruch, an increasing number of Yemenite Jews, as well as various other individuals, are being attracted to the Mishneh Torah as their choice code of Jewish law by which to live.

Rabbinic Tradition recognizes that achieving an appropriate balance could pose both practical and philosophic challenges ( e. g. the requirement for secular education as opposed to limited vocational training ), and the various issues are therefore widely discussed – in various tractates in the Talmud ( see Berachot 35b ), in the halakhic literature ( e. g. Mishneh Torah Deot Ch. 5, Talmud Torah Ch. 3 ), as well as in Jewish Philosophy, Hasidic thought and Musar ( ethical ) literature.

" Maimonides ( 1135 – 1204 ), the preeminent Jewish philosopher of his day, wrote, " Only lately some well-to-do men came forward and purchased three copies of my code Mishneh Torah which they distributed through messengers ....

Rabbi Meir Simcha authored Ohr Somayach ( or Ohr Sameiach ) (" The delighted, or happy, light "), a play on his name, possibly derived from Proverbs 13: 9 ), a collection of novellae on Maimonides ' Mishneh Torah.

His commentary, the Beit HaBechirah ( The Temple of Choosing, a play on an alternate name for G-d's Temple in Jerusalem, employed by Maimonides in his Mishneh Torah ), is one of the most monumental works written on the Talmud.

* Rabbi Yosef Qafih's edition is based mainly on Yemenite manuscripts, and includes an extensive commentary by Rabbi Qafih that surveys the discussions of the classical commentaries on Mishneh Torah and includes verbatim citation of previous commentaries in their entirety.

This edition is based on a number of manuscripts ( different ones are used for the different books, according to their reliability ) and includes an original commentary on the Mishneh Torah.

*" The Exact Mishneh Torah " edition by Rabbi Yitzchak Shelat, also of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe has no commentary.

Rabbi Yosef Qafiḥ is credited with the publication of an almost encyclopedic commentary to the entire Mishneh Torah, including his own insights, set to a text of the Misheh Torah based upon the authoritative hand-written manuscripts preserved by the Yemenite Jewish community.

Rav Arusi and the organization Makhon Mishnath haRambam have published several books filled with commentary on various parts and aspects of the Mishneh Torah as well as topics related to the Yemenite Jewish community.

Examples of his contributions include his encyclopedic commentary to the entire Mishneh Torah set to the renowned Yemenite text of the Mishneh Torah, his translation of all of Maimonides ' Commentary on the Mishnah from Arabic into modern Hebrew, as well as translations of the Guide for the Perplexed, Duties of the Heart, Sefer Kuzari, and a number of other works.

This order is also quoted in Mishneh Torah Hilchot Sefer Torah 7: 15.

By the 12th century, the Mishneh Torah ( i. e., Rabbi Moses Maimonides ) was criticizing Christianity on the grounds of idol worship, in that Christians attributed divinity to Jesus who had a physical body.

Since the transcription of the Talmud, notable rabbis have compiled law codes that are generally held in high regard: the Mishneh Torah, the Tur, and the Shulchan Aruch.

This is codified in the Mishna Avot 4: 29, the Babylonian Talmud in tractates Avodah Zarah 10b, and Ketubot 111b, and in Maimonides's 12th century law code, the Mishneh Torah, in Hilkhot Melachim ( Laws of Kings ) 8. 11.

The principles and rules appear to have been settled by the time Maimonides compiled the Mishneh Torah in the 12th century.

Halakha constitutes the practical application of the 613 mitzvot (" commandments ", singular: mitzvah ) in the Torah, ( the five books of Moses, the " Written Law ") as developed through discussion and debate in the classical rabbinic literature, especially the Mishnah and the Talmud ( the " Oral law "), and as codified in the Mishneh Torah or Shulchan Aruch ( the Jewish " Code of Law ".

Besides the basic categories applied to the mitzvot in antiquity, during the medieval period Jewish law was classified by such works as Maimonides ' Mishneh Torah and Joseph Karo's Shulchan Aruch.

Maimonides ' Mishneh Torah divides the laws into fourteen sections.

The details of these laws are codified from the Talmudic texts in the Mishneh Torah.

They can be found mainly in chapter 9 and 10 of Hilkhoth Melakhim u ' Milhamothehem in Sefer Shoftim of the Mishneh Torah.

* The post-Talmudic codificatory literature, such as Maimonides ' Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch with commentaries ;

The most widely accepted codes of Jewish law are known as Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch.

The Mishneh Torah is very influential to this day, and several later works reproduce passages verbatim.

This work is not binding in the same way as the Mishneh Torah or the Shulchan Aruch.

* Mishneh Torah:

*** Mishneh Torah and commentaries

Maimonides ( Mishneh Torah, Laws of Prayer 1: 4 ) relates that until the Babylonian exile, all Jews composed their own prayers.

Maimonides, in his Mishneh Torah, summarizes the matter as follows:

His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah still carries canonical authority as a codification of Talmudic law.

Maimonides's Mishneh Torah is considered by traditionalist Jews even today as one of the chief authoritative codifications of Jewish law and ethics.