http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/ This list is for slow readings of the works of Maimonides Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:43:37 GMT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2635 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2635 Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the maimonides group. File : /Ramban vs Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:25:59 GMT Scott http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2634 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2634 http://www.mhcny.org/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:01:47 GMT Scott http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2633 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2633 Sorry for my long disappearance, but you might like this chapter from what I am working on. GUIDE 1:26 THE TORAH SPEAKS IN THE LANGUAGE OF MEN Friedlander's Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:13:44 GMT timothykennelly http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2632 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2632 I should add, it is not an "almost pure rationalism" but rather a true rationalism, not to be confused with the sickening nonsense that passes for rationalism Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:05:30 GMT timothykennelly http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2631 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2631 Mr. Baker, I have found Maimonides' "Guide" a very useful book. I am not Jewish, but I have the impression that Maimonides is at least making room in the Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:24:16 GMT Scott Alexander http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2630 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2630 No. Now I am offended. I wrote you a nice note gently warning you not to abuse your privilege of using this listserve. I had previously noticed problems. Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:59:21 GMT davidbenabraham http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2629 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2629 My friends, Jonathan and Scott, and all others, Shalom! I'm sorry if I offended anyone on this thread. If you look closely at the discussions we've had on this Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:34:17 GMT Scott Alexander http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2628 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2628 I am sorry to intervene in this so late in the game, but I have been busy with the khametz. We really can't have this level of flaming on the listserve. Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:38:11 GMT Jonathan Baker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2627 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2627 ... I think we have nothing left to say to one another. You elide explicit Rambams while claiming to follow the Rambam, while accusing me of not being Jewish Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:29:13 GMT davidbenabraham http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2626 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2626 My dear Jon, Shalom! I will excuse your rudeness at this time. Did you say that you were not Jewish? Note that the Boraitta quoted by me permits the use of Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:13:22 GMT Jonathan Baker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2625 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2625 ... And my point is that in fact the Rambam doesn't rule like you want him to have done. Nor do later halachists. ... Duh. It's like "we don't determine the Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:00:03 GMT davidbenabraham http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2624 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2624 My dear friend Jon, Sorry if I misconstrued your writing style for being that of Joshua's. He's one of my old pals who has been most voiciferous about the Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:06:51 GMT Jonathan Baker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2623 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2623 ... Exsqueeze me? My name is not Joshua, nor is it Dr. Falken. My name is what it is. I have a (non-Jewish, unfortunately) nephew named Joshua, though. ... Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:25:05 GMT davidbenabraham http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2622 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2622 Jon Baker (alias: Joshua), Shalom! It is clear, moreover, that we do not pasken like Jon Baker, or Joshua, or any of his like. We do pasken like Rambam in this Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:38:05 GMT davidbenabraham http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2621 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maimonides/message/2621 This link may interest some of our readers, as we have tried to show where local tradition often took precedence over halachic rulings of a man greatly loved