• The Epistle to Yemen or Yemen Letter (Arabic: الرسالة اليمنية, translated as Hebrew: אגרת תימן, romanized: Iggeret Teiman) was an important communication...
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  • ISBN 9042018585. "Epistle to Yemen Complete", "Maimonides, Trans. Boaz Cohen", url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistle_to_Yemen/Complete, Astren, Fred...
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  • themselves to be prophets. Maimonides referred to Muhammad as a false prophet and an insane man. In his Epistle to Yemen he wrote "After [Jesus] arose the Madman...
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    Baladi-rite prayer Epistle to Yemen Al-Ousta Codex "Yemenite Jews in Stamford Hill: A failed experiment". "Watch: After 15 Years: Yemeni Jewish Family Reunites...
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    descent back to Simeon ben Judah ha-Nasi from the Davidic line. His ancestry, going back four generations, is given in his Epistle to Yemen as Moses son...
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  • Oaths in his famous Epistle to the Jews of Yemen (Iggeret Teiman), written around 1173. In this letter, Maimonides attempted to strengthen the morale...
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    expressed most famously in Maimonides' "Epistle to Yemen," would seem to have its origins in the attempt to deal with the trauma of a failed Messianic...
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    that was threatening the Jews of Yemen, an exchange which prompted Maimonides to compose his famous Epistle to Yemen. The letters and intellectual dialogue...
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  • a change of fortune Maimonides wrote in his Epistle to Yemen (ch. xiii): "I note that you are inclined to believe in astrology and in the influence of...
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    the 12th century. For example, Maimonides' 1173/4 Epistle to Yemen warns the Jewish community of Yemen against joining similarly heterodox and syncretistic...
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