Rambam Mishneh Torah
Rabbi YY Jacobson
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Dedicated by Franki Cohen, for the Refuah Sheleima of Ezriel ben Mina
This class, in the Rambam's Mishneh Torah, the Laws of Yesodei HaTorah, chapter one, was presented on Thursday Parshas Matos-Masei, 24 Tammuz, 5780, July 16, 2020, live from Rabbi YY Jacobson's House in Monsey, NY
Rambam Mishneh Torah
Rabbi YY Jacobson
Dedicated by Franki Cohen, for the Refuah Sheleima of Ezriel ben Mina
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Anonymous -4 years ago
Is there a Friday shiur
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Jake W -4 years ago
Does HKBH have Feelings
After listening to this first shiur, the thought occurred to me "Does Hashem have Feelings"?
We say in Hallel that "Difficult for Hashem is the suffering of the Righteous". How do we understand this? Is this a symbolic use of the words difficult to put it in perspective for us? Or is this actually difficult for Hashem?
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Yochanan Gordon -4 years ago
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Nunya -4 years ago
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Yochanan Gordon -4 years ago
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Yochanan Gordon -4 years ago
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Moshe -4 years ago
Hashem doesn't change?
But didn't He change His mind after the prayers and pleas of various tzaddikim?
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Lazar -4 years ago
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Moshe -4 years ago
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Moshe -4 years ago
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Yehudis -4 years ago
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Moshe -4 years ago
Rashi lived a century before Rambam
In the days before printing and widespread easy dissemination of any pirush, including Rashi's, do we know whether the Rambam had access to Rashi on chumash or gemora?
If not it's that much more amazing
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Alizah Hochstead -4 years ago
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Anonymous -4 years ago
DId the Rambam have a reason for his ordering in the ordering of the mitzvos that he made?
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Sara Metzger -4 years ago
For those who don't have a Mishneh Torah ...
Of course it’s probably preferred to have the actual books, either in Hebrew or English translation, whatever works for you, but if right now you don’t have access to one, and ofc besides the pdf source sheets that Rabbi YY provides, here is a link to The Mishneh Torah from Chabad.org. It’s in Hebrew with an English translation. Can be printed out or viewed on line. https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/901656/jewish/Introduction-to-Mishneh-Torah.htm
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Moshe -4 years ago
The Rambam said: "with the Chumash and my Mishneh Torah, you don't need anything else" !
As was said there are scores of seforim of pirushim on the Rambam, Hashem's sense of humor.
I had said that Joseph Karo, the Choferz Chaim, the Alter Rebbe and others must have disagreed.
I was referring not to the fact that tho there were many pirushim on the Rambam, but that these three (and perhaps others) that were dafka subsequent Shulchan Aruchs. This shows the Rambam's statement to be somewhat overreaching (tho his is the only one to codify laws no longer or not yet applicable).
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Zalman -4 years ago
1. Just a clarification: The statement "with the Chumash and my Mishneh Torah, you don't need anything else" should likely read "with the Tanach and my Mishneh Torah, you don't need anything else" as Rambam writes that לְפִי שֶׁאָדָם קוֹרֶא תּוֹרָה שֶׁבִּכְתָב תְּחִלָּה, וְאַחַר כָּךְ קוֹרֶא בְּזֶה, וְיוֹדֵעַ מִמֶּנּוּ תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה כֻּלָּהּ, and Torah shbiksav likely encompases Neviim and Kesuvim.
2. The Rambam called his compilation "Mishna Torah" for it covers ALL of the Oral Torah — via the explanation of all the laws associated with ALL 613 Mitzvos.
The Mechaber called his compilation "Shulchan Aruch" — A set table — specifically only including the laws and customs relavant and applicable in his time and region.
Therefore, the statement that one need only learn Torah Shebiksav and Rambam, and with that one has fulfiled the obligation to learn Kol haTorah kula, is still true and has not been supplanted by any other compilation. (See Hilchos Talmud Torah of the Alter Rebbe.)
3. As an aside, there has always been layers of commentary to any primary Torah text and Rambam is no different. In terms of those particulars that you mentioned. The Mechaber and the Alter Rebbe were the only two that authored "shulchan Aruch's" while all the other halachic works are either commentaries or selected halachos. (this includes the Shach & Taz, Magen Avrahom etc. and also the Mishna Berurah.)
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Moshe -4 years ago
Ty Zalman. My point was that the Rambam intimated that his digest of laws, the first and still most comprehensive, was "it". And with the Tanach (I stand corrected by it is a picayune difference without a distinction); that's all one needs. Ever.
Yet later we see that there later additional digests of laws, albeit not as comprehensive, (and the title given is irrelevant, they are organized systemic digests of laws) that were written highlighting the Rambam's statement as being, in my humble opinion, a bit overreaching.
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