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...designs and decorations for the prayer room tried hard to keep everything nondenominational. At the last minute a scroll was removed from the stained-glass window (donated by craftsmen and designers from California's 21st District) because it might be taken as a symbol of the Jewish Torah...
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...
...principles of ethics and morals on which can be constructed a way of life more satisfying than the rabbis' interpretations with which our grandparents had to be content." Added another: "Every nation needs its traditions, but we modern Israelis can't accept the traditionalism of the Torah-soaked ghettos...
...Israel's Knesset (Parliament) passed a bill which makes the rabbinate the sole body authorized to officiate at marriages or divorces in Israel. This means that all the ancient restrictions of the Torah are the law of the land: no Jew may marry a gentile, no woman may sue for divorce (though the new law provides that if a rabbi decides that a woman has ground for divorce and her husband refuses her one, civil authorities may arrest him and "hold him in gaol until he complies...