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Maimonides on the Decline of the Generations and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority

Maimonides on the Decline of the Generations and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority

Kellner, Menachem

Paperback

Series: Suny Jewish Philosophy

PhilosophyJudaism

ISBN10: 0791429229
ISBN13: 9780791429228
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Apr 4 1996
Pages: 137
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.95 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

Shows to what extent and in what fashion Jews are bound to accept the opinions and the pronouncements of religious authorities.

Moses Maimonides, medieval Judaism's leading legist and philosopher, and a figure of central importance for contemporary Jewish self-understanding, held a view of Judaism which maintained the authority of the Talmudic rabbis in matters of Jewish law while allowing for free and open inquiry in matters of science and philosophy. Maimonides affirmed, not the superiority of the moderns (the scholars of his and subsequent generations) over the ancients (the Tannaim and Amoraim, the Rabbis of the Mishnah and Talmud) but the inherent equality of the two. The equality presented here is not equality of halakhic authority, but equality of ability, of essential human characteristics.

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