In 1770 he severed his connection with his orthodox co-religionists by his critical commentary on the Moreh Nebukhim of Maimonides, and devoted himself to the study of philosophy on the lines of Wolff and Moses Mendelssohn.

The site of Moreh, a hill by which Gideon camped before he attacked the Midianites, is sometimes identified with modern Nebi Dahi, Israel, south of Mount Tabor but this has not been confirmed on the ground.

In late 1974, an affiliated group named Garin Elon Moreh, led by Rabbi Menachem Felix and Benjamin ( Beni ) Katzover, attempted to establish a settlement on the ruins of the Sebastia train station dating from the Ottoman period.

* Moreh Ḥaṭṭa ' im, or Seder ha-Kapparot, on penitence and confession of sin, first published at Venice, 1543.

Samuel's reputation is based not on his original writings, however, but on his translations, especially on that of Maimonides ' Guide for the Perplexed in 1190 ( the Hebrew translation is Moreh Nevukhim ).

Many suggested sites are located on the north side of the Jezreel Valley, near or on the Hill of Moreh.

The small hill, on the east side of the Hill of Moreh, is 211 meters high.

** Three series of video / audio shiurim on select sections of the Moreh Nevukhim, Rabbi Meir Triebitz-On Book I ( Negative Theology ), On Book II ( Creation ), On Book III ( Divine Commandments )

" Moreh Derekh ", the Rabbi's manual of the Conservative Judaism movement's Rabbinical Assembly, presents a ceremony based on traditional Jewish forms, with a number of options that parents may choose to perform: ( A ) Lighting seven candles ( symbolizing the seven days of creation ) and holding the baby towards them, ( B ) Wrapping the baby in the four corners of a tallit ( Jewish prayer shawl ), or ( C ) Lifting the baby and touching her hands to a Torah scroll.

The Beita incident was a confrontation that took place between Israeli settlers from Elon Moreh and Palestinian residents of Beita, on April 6, 1988.

About 10 kilometres South of Elon Moreh, whilst on land belonging to Beita village they came across a farmer, Mousa Saleh Bani Shamseh.

India ’ s foreign minister met with Myanmar ’ s construction minister in Delhi on the 22nd Feb 2012, and spoke about opening a highway between Moreh, India, and the Myanmar-Thai border near Mae Sot.

His notes on the Giv ' at ha Moreh of Joseph ben Isaac ha-Levi prove that he occupied himself with philosophy.

This was done by close textual analysis of the word in the Tanach in order to present what Maimonides saw as the proof that according to the Tanach, God is completely incorporeal: " Rambam set up the incorporeality of God as a dogma, and placed any person who denied this doctrine upon a level with an idolater ; he devoted much of the first part of the " Moreh Nevukhim " to the interpretation of the Biblical anthropomorphisms, endeavoring to define the meaning of each and to identify it with some transcendental metaphysical expression.

But having been completely overshadowed by Maimonides ' classical work, the Moreh Nebukim, Abraham ibn Daud's Emunah Ramah (" Sublime Faith "), a work to which Maimonides himself was indebted for many valuable suggestions, received scant notice from later philosophers.

He had determined to go to Rome, but stopped short in Capua, where during the early 1260s he devoted himself with passionate zeal to the study of philosophy and of the Moreh Nebhukhin ( Guide for the Perplexed ) of Maimonides, under the tutelage of a philosopher and physician named Hillel — probably the well-known Hillel ben Samuel ben Eliezer of Verona.

Moreh Nevukhim ; Arabic:, dalālatul ḥā ’ irīn, ) is one of the major works of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides or " the Rambam ".

The first Hebrew translation ( titled Moreh Nevukhim ) was written in 1190 by a contemporary of Maimonides, Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon in southern France.

He says that wherever " mal ' akhim " ( angels ) are mentioned in the Bible, the designation does not refer to living, speaking beings who act as messengers, but to forces of nature, as fire, fog, winds, etc., by means of which God performs His works ( compare Maimonides, " Moreh ," ii.

This encouragement naturally led to the study of the works of Maimonides — particularly of the " Moreh Nebukim "— the favorite writer of Hillel of Verona ( 1220 – 1295 ).

This accomplishment was reserved for Maimonides, who discussed the relevance of the philosophy of Aristotle to Judaism ; and to this end he composed his immortal work, " Dalalat al-Ḥairin " ( Guide for the Perplexed ) — known better under its Hebrew title " Moreh Nevuchim "— which served for many centuries as the subject of discussion and comment by Jewish thinkers.

Even Rabbi Maimon or Maimonides, the most intelligent of them all, is often, in his master-piece, the Moreh Neochim, the teacher of the perplexed, most deplorably empty and vain .” A. C. 1831 VI p. 486

The first attempt to take residence in Berlin in 1778 also failed, he was expelled for possession of the Moreh Nebukhim of Maimonides.

Moreh Nebukhe ha-Zeman ( Guide for the Perplexed of the Time ) is divided into seventeen chapters, of which the first six deal with religion in general.

** Approaching the Guide: Penetrating Rambam ’ s Moreh Nevuchim, Rabbi Jonathan Blass

* 1190-Maimonides writes the Moreh Nebukhim, or Guide to the Perplexed, using rationalism to reconcile Judaism with Aristotle's laws of nature, and Shloshah-Asar Ikkarim, the Thirteen Articles of Faith.

Thus for them, at Shechem, grew the terebinths, elone moreh: " Abraham passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, at the Terebinths of Moreh.

As the motive for his undertaking he mentions that the scholars of Lunel asked him for a translation of the " Moreh ".

When then this individual comes into being, God does not learn any new fact ; nothing has happened that He knew not of, for He knew this individual, such as he is now, before his birth " (" Moreh ," i. 20 ).

Translators who consider the obscure elon moreh of Genesis 12: 6 to be the name of a locality, render it as " the plains of Moreh ".

The phrase " Midrash halakha " was employed by Nachman Krochmal ( in his " Moreh Nebuke ha-Zeman ," p. 163 ), the Talmudic expression being " Midrash Torah " = " investigation of the Torah ".

Samuel also wrote an index to the Biblical verses quoted in the " Moreh ".

Artur Schnabel was one of the greatest Schubert-Beethoven-Mozart players of all time, and any commentary of his on this repertory is valuable.

It is an engrossing commentary on a repressive, upper-middle-class New York way of life in the first part of this century.

Swami Sivananda, an Advaita scholar, reiterates the same views in his commentary synthesising Vedanta views on the Brahma Sutras, a Vedantic text.

In his commentary on Chapter 3 of the Brahma Sutras, Sivananda notes that karma is insentient and short-lived, and ceases to exist as soon as a deed is executed.

* Alternate History Weekly Update: a blog featuring commentary on alternate history news.

* Ambrosiaster or the " pseudo-Ambrose " is a brief commentary on Paul's Epistles, which was long attributed to Ambrose.

His principal theological works are a commentary in three volumes on the Books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard ( Magister Sententiarum ), and the Summa Theologiae in two volumes.

On the subject of alchemy and chemistry, many treatises relating to Alchemy have been attributed to him, though in his authentic writings he had little to say on the subject, and then mostly through commentary on Aristotle.

For example, in his commentary, De mineralibus, he refers to the power of stones, but does not elaborate on what these powers might be.

Albertus is known for his enlightening commentary on the musical practice of his times.

Most of his written musical observations are found in his commentary on Aristotle's Poetics.

The commentary on the Sophistical Refutations is deemed spurious, as is the commentary on the final nine books of the Metaphysics.

Simplicius of Cilicia mentions that Alexander provided commentary on the quadrature of the lunes, and the corresponding problem of squaring the circle.

In April 2007, it was reported that imaging analysis had discovered an early commentary on Aristotle's Categories in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and Robert Sharples suggested Alexander as the most likely author.

Ambrosiaster is the name given to the writer of a commentary on St Paul's epistles, " brief in words but weighty in matter ," and valuable for the criticism of the Latin text of the New Testament.

Because Augustine cites part of the commentary on Romans as by " Sanctus Hilarius " it has been ascribed by various critics at different times to almost every known Hilary.

Of his reputedly numerous writings, only his commentary on Aristotle's De Interpretatione survives intact.

A commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge may also be his, but it is somewhat corrupt and contains later interpolations.

Two treatises are sometimes erroneously attributed to him, one On Emotions, the other a commentary on Aristotle's Ethics ( really by Constantine Palaeocapa in the 16th century, or by John Callistus of Thessalonica ).

The 9th-10th century master of the religious system known as " the nondual Shaivism of Kashmir " ( or " Kashmir Shaivism ") and aesthetician, Abhinavagupta brought rasa theory to its pinnacle in his separate commentaries on the Dhvanyāloka, the Dhvanyāloka-locana ( translated by Ingalls, Masson and Patwardhan, 1992 ) and the Abhinavabharati, his commentary on the Nātyashāstra, portions of which are translated by Gnoli and Masson and Patwardhan.