Moses ben Maimon, also known as Rambam, and commonly called Maimonides, was the ultimate Jewish polymath. He was the court physician to the sultan Saladin, and author of the Mishnah Torah and The ...
Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, Maimonides, also known by the acronym Rambam, lived over eight hundred years ago (1138-1204 CE). He never saw the planet Earth as Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders did on ...
I teach a philosophy of religion seminar titled “Faith and Reason.” Most students who register arrive with a mistaken assumption: that the course explores the differences between the two. “Faith” is ...
The hymn Yigdal is a song found in the Siddur prayer book and sung in synagogues on Shabbat, holidays, and other occasions. It is based on Maimonides’s thirteen principles of Judaism, in his ...
Daily Times: The Rambam — the man who can bring peace between Jews and Muslims (Part-I)
The Rambam — the man who can bring peace between Jews and Muslims (Part-I)
(The Conversation) — I teach a philosophy of religion seminar titled “Faith and Reason.” Most students who register arrive with a mistaken assumption: that the course explores the differences between ...
The Times of Israel: Principles of belief are subject to differing interpretation
The philosophic conception that is reflected in the codification of a binding dogma by Maimonides that Judaism demands philosophic principles of belief that one must accept characterizes the orthodox ...
Faith on the Move, a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, focuses on the religious affiliation of international migrants, examining patterns of migration among seven major groups: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, adherents of other religions and the religiously unaffiliated.