Word: talmud
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Within Judaism, Maimonides is held in high regard by the Orthodox, who frequently quote his sayings and avidly study the Mishneh Torah* (Repetition of the Law), his magisterial systematization of biblical commandments and the Talmud. Many Orthodox ignore his philosophical masterpiece, The Guide of the Perplexed, which continues to inspire secularized Jews and is required reading in the Jewish studies departments that are proliferating in U.S. universities...
...death, conversion or exile. The Maimon family, choosing to depart, wandered for a decade before settling in Fez, then the capital of Morocco. Maimonides, educated by his father and other local rabbis, soon began his first major project, a commentary on the Mishnah, which is part of the Talmud, the massive and authoritative compilation of Jewish law. Maimonides' work contained the 13 Articles of Faith, to this day part of synagogue ritual...
...incest, sadomasochism, homosexuality, rape, frigidity, all can be discussed in the name of frankness, liberty and Donahue. Now the host has gone on beyond morning to bring his audience a look at The Human Animal. The Western variety, reports Donahue, suffers from the Judeo-Christian tradition. When the Talmud refers to God, "the endings are always masculine." In Roman Catholicism, Mary "derives her status from a male relative." Stained with sexism, flooded with hormones, prone to violence, the Animal seems doomed to repeat its self-destructive habits until Armageddon. Perhaps not. One wholesome, prematurely gray talk-show host...
Another time, somebody asked Smith about the plot we were all working on, and he said, "The answer to this mystery is a little bit more complicated than the Talmud." Well, that set them off. You see, not everybody in the gang was familiar with the Talmud. A lot of these people came because the weekend was in a Neiman-Marcus catalog and they're from places like Texas and stuff. "What's the Talmud?" one of the Texans inquired...
Matters are complicated by the blacks' religious practices, which differ from those of most Jews. They believe in the Torah, the basic Jewish Scriptures, observe the Sabbath and dietary laws, and are circumcised. The Talmud, Jewish law and its interpretation, seems never to have reached them, however, because of their geographic isolation. The issue of whether the Ethiopians are even Jews was not settled in Israel until 1972. That was when Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef decreed that the Falashas are "undoubtedly of the tribe of Dan," the inhabitants of the biblical land of Havileh in what is today...