So excited about this one! Have always been highly interested in learning as much detail as possible about the rambam, of blessed memory!

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Brilliantly clear and inspiring. Thank you dear Rabbi for this amazing lesson.

Great vlog as always, regarts from a christian who studies the jewish roots of christianity and keeping Shabbat

Maimonides was truly one the greatest Jewish thinkers. He didn't have the most authentic understanding of Judaism, but his philosophy is very profound.

Listen to you all the time and enjoy your lectures a great deal. As a older women in a evangelical church I refuse payment when filling the need to care for little ones. It is a privilege to help out am able. Other ladies in my congregation feel the same way. That ties in with the Sephardic Rabbis practice with payment.

Truly an excellent intro to peak interest into the works of the Rambam.

My research paper on Maimonides (undergraduate course Makers of Hispanic Catholic History) was my true introduction to Jewish history.

Rambam sounds like he was the Lubavitcher Rebbe of his day!

Excellent overview. Always a pleasure to listen to your lectures! Rabbi Yosef Qafih z"l wrote: "In all the subjects of the Torah, Yemenite Jews customarily base their rule of practice (halakhah) on Maimonides' teachings, and will instruct in accordance with his view, whether in lenient rulings or in strict rulings, even where most other halakhic authorities disagree. Even so, some ancient customs remained with the Yemenite Jews, especially in those matters committed unto the masses and to the general public, which are still adhered to by them from an ancient period, and which they did not change even though Maimonides rules otherwise."

It is said Rabbeinu Yona wrote Sharei Teshuva for the reason that he was somewhat complicit in the opposition of Rambam that led to the burning of his books.

Very useful.   Thank you.

Gracias/Toda Raba Professor Abramson

One of my favorite Aristotelians

Wonderful!  My profound thanks to you!

Professor Abramson you noted that Rambam wrote in Misneh Torah that Rabbi should not receive pay. Can you provide the source? Toda Raba

Speaking of Maimonides, his lack of footnotes and sources, and the commentaries, which try to supply that lack, here are my instructions on writing a Shulchan Aruch: First, understand the Rambam well enough to write a commentary on it – the Kesef Mishne. Then, understand the other great codifier, the Tur, well enough to write a thorough elucidation – the Bris Yosef. (It helps if you've also written a commentary on the Zohar and other kabalistic works.)

After all that preparation, you may be ready to write a Shulchan Aruch. But you still have to race some fellow half your age... (I speak, of course, of Maran Rabbi Yosef Karo and Rabbi Moshe Isserel's.)

Ohhhh yeaaahhhhh!!! He made Judaism easy for me👍

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Wow .. Maimonides was way beyond his time... looks like Rambam could have been a Jewish Messiah, a healer, and a spiritual intellectual. He even put his own writings instead of a scribe,  but again it came down to another rejection.