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.

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.

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:

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 ).

*** 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.

The Talmidei haRambam also keep Jewish law as codified in the Mishneh Torah.

It was also an important resource in the study of the Babylonian Talmud by the Kairouan school of Hananel ben Hushiel and Nissim Gaon, with the result that opinions ultimately based on the Jerusalem Talmud found their way into both the Tosafot and the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides.

The Mishneh Torah (, " Repetition of the Torah ") subtitled Sefer Yad HaHazaka ( ספר יד החזקה " Book of the Strong Hand ,") is a code of Jewish religious law ( Halakha ) authored by Maimonides ( Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, also known as RaMBaM or " Rambam "), one of history's foremost rabbis.

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

See also: List of commentaries on Mishneh Torah

) The Arba ' ah Turim also differs from the Mishneh Torah, in that, unlike Maimonides ' work, it deals only with areas of Jewish law that are applicable in the Jewish exile.

It was also an important resource in the study of the Babylonian Talmud by the Kairouan school of Hananel ben Hushiel and Nissim Gaon, with the result that opinions ultimately based on the Jerusalem Talmud found their way into both the Tosafot and the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides.

An opponent of Maimonides on philosophical grounds, Crescas was also dissatisfied with the method of Maimonides law code, the Mishneh Torah ,.

The author, unlike Maimonides in his Mishneh Torah, does not confine himself to giving the halachic decisions, but gives also the passage of the Talmud, explains the subject matter, and develops the din from it.

The introduction to his edition of the Mishneh Torah is well known in itself as a defense for the keeping of halakha according to the Mishneh Torah.

He is known for his writings on Maimonides ' Mishneh Torah, which he titled Ohr Somayach, as well as his novellae on the Torah, titled Meshech Chochma.

* Excerpted translation by Philip Birnbaum: " Maimonides ' Mishneh Torah: Yad Hazakah ", Hebrew Pub.

Among his many accomplishments, he writes an influential code of law ( The Mishneh Torah ) as well as, in Arabic, the most influential philosophical work ( Guide for the Perplexed ) in Jewish history.

This in turn formed the basis for the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides.

On the other hand, this only became an issue for students and scholars who dialated on the Mishneh Torah's sources.

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.

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.

" Further support for the Mishneh Torah circulating in India comes in the form of a letter sent from Safed, Israel to Italy in 1535.

* Mishneh Torah for the iPhone and iPad, Full text in Hebrew ; includes list of Mitzvot and the corroborative glosses and the animadversions of the Ra ’ avad.

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.

Further support for the Mishneh Torah circulating in India comes in the form of a letter sent from Safed, Israel to Italy in 1535.

The Aleppo Codex was the manuscript used by Maimonides when he set down the exact rules for writing scrolls of the Torah, Hilkhot Sefer Torah (" the Laws of the Torah Scroll ") in his Mishneh Torah.

In 1984 the Lubavitcher Rebbe introduced Mishneh Torah Yomi, a daily study schedule for Maimonides ' Mishneh Torah which covers all the material in a yearly cycle.

There is a link between the Dor Daim's stance on Jewish law and on the other issues, as one argument for accepting the Mishneh Torah as the best restatement of Jewish law is that most of the later codifiers, including Joseph Caro, were believers in Kabbalah and should therefore not be accepted as authorities.

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.

* Mechon-Mamre. org has produced software for learning the Ḥumash, Tanakh, Mishnah, the Talmudic texts, as well as the Mishneh Torah according to Rabbi Qafiḥ and its own accurate and scholarly text, intended to be beneficial to all.

Regarding Jewish Law, those of the Vilna Gaon's successors who were associated with the Volozhin yeshiva, such as the Brisker group and in particular Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, had a very high regard for the Mishneh Torah and held it as the best tool for the theoretical understanding of the Talmud and of Jewish law generally.

In fact the conditions for political or military action, as laid down in the Mishneh Torah, are extremely strict and limited.

The works on the Mishneh Torah and first five books of the Hebrew Bible which Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik authored were titled Beis HaLevi ( Hebrew for " House of the Levites ").