Encyclopædia Britannica article "Nachmanides". Video Lecture on Nachmanides by Dr. Henry Abramson Iggeres HaRamban - Nachmanides's letter to his son Igeres Haramban...
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Three Oaths (section Nachmanides)
treat them as binding would effectively nullify a biblical commandment. Nachmanides continues to say this command applies in every generation, even during...
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Divine providence in Judaism (section Nachmanides)
Orthodox Judaism. In general, Nachmanides' view is influential in Haredi Judaism, while Maimonides' view—in addition to Nachmanides'—underpins much of Modern...
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Hamitzvot ("Book of Commandments") by Maimonides, with a commentary by Nachmanides. Maimonides employs a set of fourteen rules (shorashim) which determine...
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that have scales and can ignore the portion of the rule about fins. Nachmanides comments that the scales of a kosher fish must be able to be removed...
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Jewish scholars who were contemporaries of Jesus, as later pointed out by Nachmanides, who in 1263 observed that Jesus was rejected as the messiah by the rabbis...
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his biblical exegesis, Bahya took as his model Rabbi Moses ben Nahman (Nachmanides) or Ramban, the teacher of Rabbi Shlomo ibn Aderet, who was the first...
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physical idols as seen in the golden calf episode. Other scholars, such as Nachmanides, disagree and maintain that the tabernacle's meaning is not tied in with...
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670 of the Seleucid era" (i.e., 358–359 CE). Later writers, such as Nachmanides, explained Hai Gaon's words to mean that the entire computed calendar...
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Disputation of Barcelona (category Nachmanides)
do?" Nachmanides noted that prophetic promises of the Messianic Age, a reign of universal peace and justice had not yet been fulfilled. Nachmanides also...
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