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Maimonides ( 1134 – 1204 ) says that as sins cannot be taken off one ’ s head and transferred elsewhere, the ritual is symbolic, enabling the penitent to discard his sins: “ These ceremonies are of a symbolic character and serve to impress man with a certain idea and to lead him to repent, as if to say, ‘ We have freed ourselves of our previous deeds, cast them behind our backs and removed them from us as far as possible ’.”
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" 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 ....
They were studied by Islamic and Jewish scholars, including Rabbi Moses Maimonides ( 1135 – 1204 ) and the Muslim Judge Ibn Rushd, known in the West as Averroes ( 1126 – 1198 ); both were originally from Cordoba, Spain, although the former left Iberia and by 1168 lived in Egypt.
Taking as his framework the metaphysical and psychological system of Moses Maimonides ( Mosheh ben Maimon, 1135 / 8 – 1204 ), Abulafia strove for spiritual experience, which he viewed as a prophetic state similar to or even identical with that of the ancient Jewish prophets.
During the era of relative religious tolerance that followed, writers such as the Jewish theologian Maimonides ( 1135 – 1204 ) or the Muslim polymath ( 1126 – 1198 ) Averroes penned works of theology, science, philosophy, and mathematics that would have lasting impacts on Hebrew and Muslim philosophy and prove essential to the flowering of the European Renaissance centuries later.
The literal message of the work was repulsive to those who maintained God's incorporeality ; Maimonides ( d. 1204 ) wrote that the book should be erased and all mention of its existence deleted.
The Jewish philosopher Maimonides ( 1135 – 1204 ) insisted that faith should be the only reason for circumcision.
The writings and rulings of those such as Rashi ( 1040 – 1105 ), Maimonides ( 1135 – 1204 ), Yosef Karo ( 1488 – 1575 ) who published the most widely accepted code of Jewish law the Shulkhan Arukh, Isaac Luria ( 1534 – 1572 ), the Vilna Gaon ( 1720 – 1797 ), the Chafetz Chaim ( 1838 – 1933 ) and many others have shaped Jewish religious law for almost two thousand years, as their religious rulings were published, distributed, studied, and observed until the present time.
Pioneer scholars such as Ibn Maimun ( Maimonides ), ( 1135 – 1204 ), Al-Idrissi ( d. 1166 AD ), Ibn al-Arabi ( 1165-1240 AD ), Ibn Khaldun ( 1332-1395 AD ), Ibn al-Khatib, Al-Bitruji ( Alpetragius ), Ibn Hirzihim, and Al-Wazzan were all connected with the madrasa either as students or lecturers.
In Jewish tradition, Saadiah ( d. 942 ), Ibn Ezra ( d. circa 1164 ), Maimonides ( 1135 – 1204 ) and Obadiah ben Abraham ( 1465-1515 ) identified the ezov mentioned in the Hebrew Bible with the Arabic word " za ' atar ".
Maimonides ' ( 1135 – 1204 ) Laws of Repentance in his Mishneh Torah is one of the most authoritative sources for the name and function of these days, but he draws on earlier sources:
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In the introduction Obadiah says that he was induced to write his work by the fact that even so great a man as Maimonides had expressed the opinion that all the theories of Aristotle concerning the sublunary world are absolutely correct.
Maimonides says that, while the second highest form of tzedakah is to anonymously give donations to unknown recipients, the highest form is to give a gift, loan, or partnership that will result in the recipient supporting himself instead of living upon others.
Indeed, says Maimonides, all existing evils, with the exception of some which have their origin in the laws of production and destruction and which are rather an expression of God's mercy, since by them the species are perpetuated, are created by men themselves.
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It is clear that ibn Megas was a great scholar: Maimonides in the introduction to his Mishnah commentary says " the Talmudic learning of this man amazes every one who understands his words and the depth of his speculative spirit ; so that it might almost be said of him that his equal has never existed.
It is for this reason that while praising Maimonides as the author of the " Yad ," Luzzatto blames him severely for being a follower of the Aristotelian philosophy, which, he says, brought no good to himself while causing much evil to other Jews (" Penine Shadal ," p. 417 ).
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Maimonides decreed that Jews raised in a Karaite household are considered to be tinoq shenishbah, like babies taken captive by non-Jews ; they cannot be punished for their wayward behavior, because it is the result of their parents ' influence.
This leads to Maimonides ' notion that God cannot be described in any positive terms, but rather only in negative conceptions ; see Negative theology: In the Jewish tradition.
According to Fox, Maimonides carefully assembled the Guide " so as to protect people without a sound scientific and philosophical education from doctrines that they cannot understand and that would only harm them, while making the truths available to students with the proper personal and intellectual preparation.
According to Maimonides, to argue that " because I have never observed something coming into existence without coming from a substratum it cannot occur " is equivalent to arguing that " because I cannot empirically observe eternity it does not exist.
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