I just finished reading Yoram Hazoni's article in Commentary Magazine discussing his read of The Emergence of Ethical Man by Rav Joseph B. Sloveitchik. I immediately ordered the book because if Yoram's understanding of it is correct, it is the contemporary Guide for the Perplexed. This article is anyway a must read for anyone interested in a modern perspective and presentation of a very similar approach to how I understand Rambam's outlook on Judaism.
If Hazony is correct the Rav was a pure Maimonidean and all those rumours that he was Nachmanidean should be dispelled.
Which issue? I can't seem to locate this article.
ReplyDeleteThe latest one that just arrived in my mail yesterday.
ReplyDeleteIs it available online?
ReplyDeleteThanks for pointing this out.
ReplyDeleteGoogle Books offers a "preview".
The latest one being April? March?
ReplyDeleteApril I tried accessing online without success
ReplyDeleteDid it live up to the expectation?
ReplyDeleteYou can read the Yoram Hazony article here:
ReplyDeletehttp://jerusalemletters.com/jletters/articles/a-bombshell-from-the-rav
Thank you for the link to Jerusalem Letters. I attempted to access the article through Commentary without success (even though a subscriber)...and essay in frustration.
ReplyDeleteThe Vatican Library and the Bodleian Library are going online over the next 4 years.
ReplyDeletehttp://genizah.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
1.5 pages of the Rambam's Talmud Bavli: http://genizah.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/fragment/MS_Heb_c_21/18a
The fragments stop loading for me so I can't looking through it.
Rabbi Meir Triebitz has started a series of shiurim on the sefer. http://www.hashkafacircle.com
ReplyDeleteNew article on the topic appeared in Meorot:
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