HUMA 1860 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Madhhab, Jewish Philosophy, Maimonides
11 Oct 2017
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Talmud: it is the rabbinic commentary on the oral torah -called the mishnah, commentaries of oral torah are written down and called the gemerah, gemerah contains: aggadarh & halakhah (law, it"s a re(cid:272)ord of ra(cid:271)(cid:271)ini(cid:272) dis(cid:272)ussions. Pompey: in 63 bce, the roman general, pomeny was called to judea to settle rivalry, instead he took over repressed jewish population in judea, in 37 bce, herod the great was appointed king of israel. Western wall: the second temple was destroyed by romans in 70ce which was never rebuilt, all that remains is the wall in jerusalem. The continues to symbolize the temple -scared: it is considered an open synagogue where people pray, women and men pray at different areas. Maimonides: famous jewish philosophers & legal schools, he had the 14-volume code of jewish law called mishnah torah, also wrote guide of perplexed -
