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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 624

Mishneh Torah

Rachel Neiman, a spokesperson at the National Library of Israel, examines a 15th-century manuscript featuring Mezukak Shivatayim ('Distilled Sevenfold'), a previously lost commentary on Maimonines’s Misheh Torah is on display at the National Library of Israel in February 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
February 27, 2025, 11:10 am
Lost & found: Early commentary on Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah on display in Jerusalem
Now housed at the National Library, 15th-cent. Mezukak Shivatayim extensively quotes Jewish sages whose works are unknown to scholars, opening the way to recover thinkers’ lost wisdom
By Rossella Tercatin
Maimonides marble bas-relief in the chamber of the US House of Representatives in the United States Capitol (Public Domain)
September 3, 2019, 6:43 am
Maimonides’ ‘Mishneh Torah’ translated into Russian
Philosopher rabbi’s magnum opus published by Moscow-based Knizhniki Publishing House, after eight years of work and at a cost of about $1.5 million
By JTA
Johnny Solomon
February 15, 2018, 12:32 pm
Johnny Solomon
Jewish law — far more than a dry, unbending code
Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo faults halacha handbooks for a lack of legal creativity; he misses the mark (review)
Iranian singer Parham Haghighi performs the role of Sabbatai Tzvi in 'Seekers of Light,' an opera written by Boston-based Israeli composer Matti Kovler. Seven scenes from the libretto were premiered at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston on Wed. night (photo credit: Jared Wickerham/The Times of Israel)
December 19, 2014, 3:08 pm
‘Hanukkah miracle’ at Boston museum’s joint Israeli-Iranian show
Musicians from ‘enemy’ countries perform in Hebrew and Persian in ‘Seekers of Light,’ an opera based on infamous Sabbatai Tzvi
By Matt Lebovic
This undated image provided by Sotheby's shows a section of a Torah created in Italy in 1457-1465. The illuminated manuscript, known as the Frankfurt Mishneh Torah, was auctioned for upwards of $2.9 million on April 29, 2013. (photo credit: AP)
May 1, 2013, 3:49 am
Steinhardt Judaica collection auctioned for $8.5 million
Sotheby’s says 92.6 percent of the 381 lots sold in ‘most valuable auction of Judaica ever held’
Joshua Hammerman
October 3, 2012, 12:28 pm
Joshua Hammerman
Maimonides and the ‘Negro’ etrog
I’m confident that Rambam’s reputation will survive, but I really wish he had come up with another way to describe a black citron
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