{"id":8506,"date":"2009-03-17T15:29:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T23:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8506"},"modified":"2009-03-17T15:29:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T23:29:09","slug":"what-did-the-rambam-really-think-about-judaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8506","title":{"rendered":"What Did The Rambam Really Think About Judaism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/hirhurim.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/audio-roundup-xxxiii.html\">Joel Rich writes<\/a>: [Some] SHIURIM are Pay to download: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torahinmotion.org\/store\/prod_search.asp?category=10&amp;speaker=All&amp;keywords=&amp;mode=1\">link<\/a> (look under sages or author )<\/p>\n<div class=\"Post\">\n<li><strong>Dr. Kenneth Hart Green &#8211; Did Maimonides Hide What He Really Thought About Judaism?<\/strong>\n<p>Did the Rambam purposely hide deeper intent? (Strauss) True philosophy requires some doubt (it&rsquo;s not the opposite of faith). Rambam needed to keep his true agenda hidden because most common folk can&rsquo;t handle the truth (calling Colonel Jessep) and can be dangerous even for some who seek the ultimate level (intellectual elite). [You are right Nosson Aryeh-I probably should&rsquo;ve spent more time in the critical works section.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rabbi Mordechai Willig &#8211; Relationships Between Observant Jews &amp; Non-Observant Jews (Part II)<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yutorah.org\/lectures\/lecture.cfm\/732684\/Rabbi_Mordechai_I._Willig\/Relationships_Between_Observant_Jews_&amp;_Non-Observant_Jews_%28Part_II%29\">link<\/a>\n<p>Practical issues in dealing with not yet frum. Can they be counted for a minyan? Given an aliyah? Duchen? May they be invited for Shabbat even if they drive? Can you give them food even if you know they won&rsquo;t make a bracha? If it&rsquo;s a parent, is there halachic mourning? What if they touch your wine? This is part of a series, R&rsquo;Willig is using a sefer (book) which is strict but he gives his own take. CLOR (there&rsquo;s a lot of debate!)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Rabbi Michael Rosensweig &#8211; Moseir<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yutorah.org\/lectures\/lecture.cfm\/732706\/Rabbi_Michael_Rosensweig\/64-_Moseir\">link<\/a>\n<p>The Talmud in Gittin provides one of the basic sources for mesirah (turning over &ldquo;evildoers&rdquo; to the secular government) and R&rsquo;Rosensweig details the opinions of the Rashba and Meiri which drive much of the current discussions.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff &#8211; Rav Meir Kahane<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yutorah.org\/lectures\/lecture.cfm\/732401\/Rabbi_Aaron_Rakeffet-Rothkoff\/2009-02-21_Rav_Meir_Kahane_%28Shiur_given_in_Hollywood,_FL%29\">link<\/a>\n<p>An analysis of Rabbi Meir Kahane&rsquo;s approach in U.S. and Israel. Wrong on some, right on others&hellip;see his book review in the spring issue of &ldquo;Jewish Action&rdquo;.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Daniel Fridman &#8211; Mordechai Learner or Earner<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yutorah.org\/lectures\/lecture.cfm\/732693\/_Daniel_Fridman\/RDF_3_4_09_Mordechai_Learner_or_Earner\">link<\/a>\n<p>Chazal tell us Mordechi was ratzui L&rsquo;rov echav (beloved by the majority) because he should&rsquo;ve gone back to learning. Theory here is parallel to Yosef, that we are in a &ldquo;groundhog day&rdquo; loop of temporary salvations, chazal were articulating ultimate desire\/destiny.<\/li>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nachum Lamm posts: &quot;I always had a sneaking suspicion that the Straussians had a bit of an ulterior motive: They really admire the Rambam, but, not being observant Jews themselves, have a hard time reconciling to the fact that this man they admired so much didn&#8217;t, say, eat pork and, moreover, wrote a whole bunch (fourteen volumes worth, in fact) telling other people not to either. So they invented (even if they have good proofs) this idea that he didn&#8217;t really mean it. That way, they can study the Moreh and have their ham sandwich too, so to speak.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Rich writes: [Some] SHIURIM are Pay to download: link (look under sages or author ) Dr. Kenneth Hart Green &#8211; Did Maimonides Hide What He Really Thought About Judaism? Did the Rambam purposely hide deeper intent? (Strauss) True philosophy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8506\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[12279,16821,7723,15277,948,16822],"class_list":["post-8506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-torah","tag-aaron-rakeffet-rothkoff","tag-kenneth-hart-green","tag-rabbi-aaron","tag-rabbi-meir-kahane","tag-rabbi-michael","tag-rabbi-mordechai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8507,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions\/8507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}