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Israel Chai:
--- Quote from: muman613 on July 01, 2012, 07:34:22 PM ---Indeed Chabad.org is a great website with a complete TaNaKh w/Rhi on-line. And the entire Rambam Mishneh Torah is available.
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What is the Rambam Mishneh Torah?
muman613:
--- Quote from: LKZ on July 01, 2012, 08:12:53 PM ---What is the Rambam Mishneh Torah?
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The Rambam (Maimonides) wrote a sefer/book on all the mitzvot of the Torah, he enumerated them and gave sources and explanations for each of the laws.
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/682956/jewish/Mishneh-Torah.htm
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/107782/jewish/Codification-of-Jewish-Law.htm
http://www.chabad.org/dailystudy/rambam_cdo/jewish/Rambam.htm
--- Quote ---http://www.torah.org/learning/rambam/special/kapach.html
The Goal of Maimonides in the Mishneh Torah. The goal of Maimonides in the Mishneh Torah, according to his clear statement in his Introduction, is that everyone will be able to determine the halacha without the hard work of sifting out the final result from the Gemara or the words of the geonim, where one says one thing and another says a different thing. In fact the goal was not to spare work and effort, but to prevent errors by those "scholars" who see themselves as divers into the sea of the Talmud. (And who doesn’t see himself that way?) This book was intended not just to rule on simple laws that were expressly explained in it, but also for the reader to be able to compare events and occurrences that would take place in future generations and times to what is said in the book, and, according to the foundations which were established in it, to rule without hesitation.
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muman613:
Here is a story about how the Rebbe increased learning of the Mishneh Torah with the blessing of Rav Ovadia Yosef...
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/900030/jewish/Daily-Study-of-Maimonides-Works.htm
Daily Study of Maimonides' Works
By Dovid Zaklikowski
In the spring of 1984, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, called for an innovative addition to the daily study schedule of every Jewish man, woman and child. He suggested that everyone study a portion of Maimonides' compendium of Jewish law, known as the Mishneh Torah or simply as Rambam.
While many people had been turning to the fourteen-volume work to supplement their study of the Talmud or Jewish law, it was not being studied as a text on its own. Maimonides' work was somewhat neglected, as the chief rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, wrote at the time, "The Rebbe brought Rambam back from being a book for scholars to being a book for the masses to study from."
Part of the reason for this neglect was because the Mishneh Torah includes many laws that are not relevant today for daily life—laws that only applied during Temple times, and will again be pertinent during the Messianic Era. So people turned, instead, to the works that focus on Jewish laws that are immediately applicable.
But it was for precisely this reason that the Rebbe recommended studying the Mishneh Torah: "It gathers all of Jewish law in a concise and clear fashion." Every individual is commanded to study the entire Torah, a goal not within reach for most people. However, it is possible to study the whole Torah as compiled by Maimonides.
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Israel Chai:
Does that bear any relation to his Codex Aleppo that they have in the national museum of Israel?
muman613:
--- Quote from: LKZ on July 01, 2012, 10:44:12 PM ---Does that bear any relation to his Codex Aleppo that they have in the national museum of Israel?
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No it doesnt appear to be so. I have never heard of this 'Codex Aleppo' and found the following mention of it from jewishanswers.com .
http://www.jewishanswers.org/ask-the-rabbi-2989/the-aleppo-codex/?p=2989
The Aleppo Codex
Question: What is a “Codex?” I have read that it was of popular use after the scrolls, but I’m not sure exactly what it was. Can you please explain?
Answer: The term “Codex” refers to books in their modern, bound form with a cover and pages that one turns. This is as opposed to scrolls, as was common in ancient times and is preserved in our traditional, hand-written, sacred copies of books of the Jewish Bible. Of course, before the invention of the printing press, bound books with pages were also hand-written. A Torah scroll, or hand-written scroll of other books of the Bible used in synagogues, has no vowels or cantillation marks for the reader. Therefore, they must be memorized before reading in the synagogue. The earliest documents we have that record vowels and cantillations are in codice. There existed the traditions for the vowels and cantillations back to Moses at Sinai, but those were memorized. Eventually, scholars wrote down these traditions in the form of the vowel and cantillation marks we have today. One of the most famous and authoritative codice known is the Keter Aram Soba – or the Aleppo Codex, a copy of the Hebrew Bible with vowels and cantillation marks that was hand-copied in the 10th Century of the common era. This copy of the Hebrew Bible was actually used by Maimonides to study the nuances of the traditions of the Hebrew Bible (at the time the text was housed in the Cairo Synagogue). Maimonides descendants brought the text to the city of Aleppo, Syria in the late 1300’s, where it remained for five hundred years. Although parts of this book are missing, most of it is in Israel today, where it remains in the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum. Other famous codice of the Hebrew Bible include the Leningrad Codex and the Cairo Codex. However, the Aleppo Codex is considered to be the most accurate in traditional, Jewish circles. Early codice of the Talmud also exist, as well as other important books of Torah literature.
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