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Maimonides:Between Philosophy And Halakhah- Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Lecture On The Guide Of The Perplexed Guide

978-965-524-203-4

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This is the first and only comprehensive study of the philosophy of Maimonides by the noted 20th-century rabbinic scholar and thinker, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Based on a complete of notes, taken by Rabbi Gerald (Yaakov) Homnick, on R. Soloveitchik¢‚¬„¢s lectures on Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed at the Bernard Revel Graduate School, and edited by the noted scholar Lawrence Kaplan, this work constitutes a major contribution to our knowledge of both Maimonides and Soloveitchik. In these lectures Soloveitchik emerges as a major commentator on the Guide. In a wide-ranging analysis he eloquently and incisively explores such diverse topics in Maimonides¢‚¬„¢ philosophy as his views on prophecy, the knowledge of and approach to God¢‚¬normative, intellectual, and experiential; divine knowledge; human ethics and moral excellence; the divine creative act; imitation of God; and the love and fear of God. He also undertakes an extensive and penetrating comparison and contrast of Maimonides¢‚¬„¢ and Aristotle¢‚¬„¢s philosophical views. Over the course of these lectures develops a very profound and challenging overall approach to and interpretation of the Guide¢‚¬„¢s central and critical issue: the relationship between philosophy and divine law. This work sheds a bright light on the thought of both Maimonides and Soloveitchik¢‚¬two great philosophers and rabbinic scholars.