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Knowledge is power. G-dly Knowledge, is super power.
For the next couple of many weeks, I will be sharing with you, the most powerful knowledge, directives, guidelines, and good advice, EXCLUSIVELY from the words of the Rambam- Maimonides, one of the main pillars upon which current Jewish law and present day Jewish practice, is based on.
You will be pleasantly surprised to know that for thousands of years these are Jewish values. The following information, you may never have known existed in our Jewish heritage. Everything the Rambam -Maimonides writes has its roots in the Torah/Bible. I am sure that this info. will enhance, enrich and deepen your appreciation for life. It will put you in the driver’s seat to reach the best, life has to offer.
Moses Maimonides, Rambam, was a preeminent medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher, astronomer and one of the most prolific and influential Torah/Bible scholars and physicians of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba (present-day Spain), Almoravid Empire on Passover Eve, 1135, and died in Egypt on 20 Tevet - December 12, 1204, whence his body was taken to the lower Galilee and buried in Tiberias. He was a rabbi, physician, and philosopher, mainly, in Morocco and Egypt.
Although his writings on Jewish law and ethics were met with acclaim and gratitude from most Jews, even as far off as Iraq and Yemen, and he rose to be the revered head of the Jewish community in Egypt, and personal physician of the Sultan, there were also vociferous critics of some of his writings, particularly in Spain. But, he was posthumously acknowledged to be one of the foremost rabbinical arbiters and philosophers in Jewish history, and his copious work comprises a cornerstone of Jewish scholarship. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah from which I will derive the wisdom shared with my dear readers, carries significant canonical authority as a codification of Torah/Bible and Talmudic law.
Aside from being revered by Jewish historians, he is also very prominent in the history of Islamic and Arab sciences and is mentioned extensively in the studies. He lived to become a prominent philosopher and sage in both the Jewish and Islamic worlds.
In his Introduction to his Magnus opus, the Rambam writes; The intent of this text is that a person will not need another text at all with regard to any Jewish law. Rather, this text will be a compilation of the entire Oral Law, including also the ordinances, customs, and decrees that were enacted from the time of Moses, our teacher, until the completion of the Talmud, as were explained by the Rabbis in the texts they composed after the Talmud.
It is my intention to share with you, a serious serving/dose of this very practical and G-dly knowledge.
It’s more important to preserve/secure peace than to be right.
If a person has the opportunity to fulfill only one of two mitzvot, lighting a lamp for one's home on Friday eve so he isn’t sitting in the dark with his wife i.e., Sabbath candles, or lighting a Chanukah lamp, when the two come at the same time, - or, alternatively, lighting a Shabbat lamp for one's home or reciting Kiddush, the blessing made over wine on Friday Eve. required by one the Ten Commandments, to sanctify the holy day of Shabbat - the lamp for one's home receives priority, since it generates peace within the home.
Peace is of primary importance, as reflected by the mitzvah, requiring God's own name to be blotted out, to create peace between a husband and his wife, in the case of a woman suspected of adultery.
Peace is great, for the entire Torah was given to bring about peace within the world, as [Proverbs 3:17] states: "Its ways are pleasant ways and all its paths are peace."
The above is a direct quote from the Rambam. Here is one more.
Husbands honoring their wives. Wives honoring their husbands.
Our Sages commanded, that a man honor his wife more than his own person, and love her as he loves his own person. If he has financial resources, he should offer her benefits in accordance with his resources. He should not cast a superfluous measure of fear over her. He should talk with her gently, being neither sad nor angry.
And similarly, they commanded a woman to honor her husband exceedingly and to be in awe of him. She should carry out all her deeds according to his directives, considering him to be the leader and head, in the house.
This is the custom of holy and pure Jewish women and men in their marriages. And these ways will make their marriage pleasant and praiseworthy.
Could you imagine if men honored their wives more than their own selves? And wives honoring their husbands exceedingly?
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