Word: mishneh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maimonides' two greatest works are the Mishneh Torah (The Second Torah), completed in 1180, and the Moreh Nebuchim (Guide to the Perplexed), which he finished ten years later. The Mishneh Torah organized the entire body of Jewish Law into one code. In the commentary on the Mishneh is Maimonides' most widely known production-the 13 articles of faith, which most subsequent rabbinic opinion has held every Jew must accept: 1) God's existence, 2) His unity, 3) His incorporeality, 4) His timelessness, 5) His approachability through prayer, 6) the validity of prophecy, 7) the superiority of Moses...
...giant, unsurpassed since his own lifetime. Let us hope and pray that a second Rambam will rise up in our times . . . to guide the perplexed of our own people and of the entire world." Rabbi Herzog glanced upward to an inscription on the wall above him from the Mishneh Torah...