Resource

Study on Moses Maimonides

 
Grade: HSC
Subject: Studies of Religion
Resource type: Notes
Written by: N/A
Year uploaded: 2016
Page length: 3
 

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Resource Description

Mishneh Torah

  • Code of Law
  • Easy access to teachings of Talmund
  • Opposition – fear of Talmund not being needed
  • Book of Knowledge (Sefer Hamada) = Laws – Belief in God, repentance and study of Torah
  • Other books – Jewish ritual, civil laws, circumcision, Holy days, Dietary laws, ethics
  • Coming of Messiah: Peace and prosperity

Significance

  • Guide to Jewish Law W/O having to study Talmund
  • Easy to understand and read

Sefer Hamitzvot

  • Introduction to Mishneh Torah
  • List 613 mitzvot – divides into positive and negative
  • Positive –Perform an act
  • Negative – Refrain from doing something

Guide to the perplexed

  • Philosophical work
  • Jewish faith not harmed by scrutiny of rationality and reason
  • Secular and sacred
  • Questioning of God as Human
  • Reasons for why some commandments may seem unreasonable
  • Stop religion from being irrelevant in everyday life
  • Showed that faith and reason were compatible and encouraged Jews to base their faith on reason

Commentary on the Mishnah

  • Make Judaism more relevant to average Jew in Islamic society
  • Learning the Torah and putting it into practice
  • Explained each mitzvoth
  • 13 principles of Faith
    • Definite statements of Orthodox belief
    • Main features of Jewish faith
    • Basis for creedal statements made by Jews


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