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.

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* 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.

Originally published in modern Hebrew, with a running commentary to facilitate learning, his Steinzaltz edition of the Talmud has also been translated into English, French, Russian and Spanish.

The Steinsaltz editions of the Talmud include translation from the original Aramaic and a comprehensive commentary.

The Hilchot soon superseded the geonic codes, as it contained all the decisions and laws then relevant, and additionally, served as an accessible Talmudic commentary ; it has been printed with almost every subsequent edition of the Talmud.

The Beit Yosef is a huge commentary on the Tur in which Rabbi Karo traces the development of each law from the Talmud through later rabbinical literature ( examining thirty-two authorities, beginning with the Talmud and ending with the works of Rabbi Israel Isserlein ).

Ginzberg was the author of a number of scholarly Jewish works, including a commentary on Talmud Yerushalmi ( the Jerusalem Talmud ) and his six-volume ( plus a one-volume index ) The Legends of the Jews, ( 1909 ) which combined hundreds of legends and parables from a lifetime of midrash research.

Rashi had no sons and taught the Mishnah and Talmud to his daughters, until they knew it by heart as Jewish tradition teaches, they then transferred their knowledge of original Mishnah commentary to the Ashkenazi men of the next generation.

The reason that the Talmud is not usually viewed as a commentary on the Mishnah, is because it also has many other goals, and can get involved in long tangential discussions.

However, the main purpose of the Talmud is as a commentary on the Mishna.

In addition to its role as a commentary on the Mishnah, this work is often referenced by students of Talmud as a review-text, and is often referred to as " the Bartenura " or " the Ra ' V ".

According to the Talmud and the commentary of Rashi, rice is not chametz.

He is famed as the author of a comprehensive commentary on the Talmud, as well as a comprehensive commentary on the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ).

His commentary on the Talmud, which covers nearly all of the Babylonian Talmud ( a total of 30 tractates ), has been included in every edition of the Talmud since its first printing by Daniel Bomberg in the 1520s.

* Rashi's oldest daughter, Yocheved, married Meir ben Shmuel ; their four sons were: Shmuel ( Rashbam ) ( b. 1080 ), Yitzchak ( Rivam ) ( b. 1090 ), Jacob ( Rabbeinu Tam ) ( b. 1100 ), and Shlomo the Grammarian, who were among the most prolific of the Baalei Tosafos, leading rabbinic authorities who wrote critical and explanatory glosses on the Talmud which appear opposite Rashi's commentary on every page of the Talmud.

* Rashi's middle daughter, Miriam, married Judah ben Nathan, who completed the commentary on Talmud Makkot which Rashi was working on when he died.

Rashi's commentary on the Tanakh — and especially his commentary on the Chumash — is the essential companion for any study of the Talmud at any level.

An early printing of the Talmud ( Ta ' anit 9b ); Rashi's commentary is at the bottom of the right column, continuing for a few lines into the left column.

Rashi wrote the first comprehensive commentary on the Talmud.

The Medieval rabbinic figure Maimonides ( Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon ), also known as the Rambam, wrote a commentary to tractate Sanhedrin stressing a relatively naturalistic interpretation of the Messiah and de-emphasizing miraculous elements.

There is also an edition by Yosef Qafiḥ of the Mishnah together with the commentary of Maimonides, which compares the base text used by Maimonides with the Napoli and Vilna editions and other sources.

* In 1168, Maimonides published a comprehensive commentary on the Mishnah.

* Rabbi Samson of Sens ( France ) was, apart from Maimonides, one of the few rabbis of the early medieval era to compose a Mishnah commentary on some tractates.

He draws on Maimonides ' work but also offers Talmudical material ( in effect a summary of the Talmudic discussion ) largely following the commentary of Rashi.

* Mechon Mamre – Hebrew text of the Mishnah according to Maimonides ' version ( based on the manuscript of his Mishnah commentary in his own handwriting ).

1265 ) who wrote an opinion in his commentary on Maimonides ( Laws of Festivals and Holidays 5: 1 ) that " It is not proper to eat qitniyot on holidays because it is written ( in Deut.

* Kesef Mishneh ( כסף משנה ) ( Venice, 1574-5 ), a commentary of Mishneh Torah by Maimonides ;

The works of Ibn Rushd especially became the subject of their study, due in great measure to Maimonides, who, in a letter addressed to his pupil Joseph ben Judah, spoke in the highest terms of Ibn Rushd's commentary.

* Moreh ha-Moreh, commentary on the philosophical part of Maimonides ' " Guide for the Perplexed ".

The works of Ibn Rushd especially became the subject of their study, due in great measure to Maimonides, who, in a letter addressed to his pupil Joseph ben Judah, spoke in the highest terms of Ibn Rushd's commentary.

This was followed in 1655 by the Porta Mosis, extracts from the Arabic commentary of Maimonides on the Mishnah, with translation and very learned notes ; and in 1656 by the annals of Eutychius in Arabic and Latin.

The learning of the Tosafists, but not the literature on Ashkenazic customs as such, was imported into Spain by Asher ben Yeḥiel, a German-born scholar who became chief rabbi of Toledo and the author of the Hilchot ha-Rosh-an elaborate Talmudic commentary, which became the third of the great Spanish authorities after Alfasi and Maimonides.

* Maimonides ' Sefer Hamitzvot (" Book of Commandments "), on which there is a critical commentary by Nachmanides ;

Tradition regarding the location of Caphtor was preserved in the Aramaic Targums and the commentary of Maimonides which place it at Caphutkia in the vicinity of Damietta ( at the eastern edge of the Nile delta near classical Pelusium ) and by the tenth century commentator Saadia Gaon and Benjamin of Tudela, the twelfth-century Jewish traveller from Navarre, who both wrote that Damietta was Caphtor.

The Tosafot quote principally Rashi ( very often under the designation " ḳonṭres " " pamphlet ", Rashi initially published his commentary in pamphlets ), many of the ancient authorities ( as Kalonymus of Lucca, Nathan b. Jehiel, and R. Hananeel ), some contemporary scholars ( as Abraham b. David of Posquières, Maimonides, Abraham ibn Ezra, and others ), and about 130 German and French Talmudists of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

# Maimonides ' " Thirteen articles of faith " ( originally part of his Mishnah commentary on tractate Sanhedrin, 10th chapter )

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.

century ; it was meant to clarify terms that appear in his commentary on Maimonides ' Guide of the Perplexed.

In like manner Abravanel exceeded all his predecessors in combating Maimonides ' theory of the " Heavenly Chariot " in Ezekiel, and commentary on the Guide for the Perplexed, part III: 71-74.

On the initiative of the Roman community, a Hebrew translation of Maimonides ' Arabic commentary on the Mishnah was made.

The works of Ibn Roshd especially became the subject of their study, due in great measure to Maimonides, who, in a letter addressed to his pupil Joseph ben Judah, spoke in the highest terms of Ibn Roshd's commentary.

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.