Maimonides, the Great Eagle (1138-1204) 

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I literally laughed out loud at my computer screen reading this 😂

I once helped a student with an assignment.. i wrote it my style, not much citations but she was frightened to death not to see plenty of them saying: but the professor wants it this way!! I am sure she barely read it..

Maimonides had progressed passed the need for sleep.

As my teachers have pointed out, the more Talmud you learn, the more you realize the absolute genius of Maimonides in independently interpreting and organizing the whole corpus.

1. Love the crossover! Two of my fave youtubes. 2. The rambam was a giant of a man. Not only in his days but throughout time. He and rashi are both just beyond understanding how much they did in such hard times.

He has a letter describing his daily schedule, he did not sleep much.

oh its you. hello! i love your work its great.

the Rambam/Maimonides was a criminal gang thugs muggers and torturers. "Two rabbis plotted to kidnap Jewish husbands, torture them with electric cattle prods and force them to grant their desperate wives religious divorces, the feds charged.."

@@termination9353 Electric cattle prods 900 years ago huh.

@@pesachnestlebaum So they used other forms of torture back then. Point is he resorted to evil torture contrary to Torah law.

Fascinating, and here I always thought that it translated as: "There's a million of us just like Moses, Who cuss like Moses; who just don't give a fuck like Moses, Who dress like Moses; walk, talk and act like Moses, Who just might be the next best thing but not quite Moses!"

@@termination9353 Lmao thats the New York Divorce Coercion Gang

Right!?

Professor Henry Abramson is my favorite Jewish Historian.

the Rambam/Maimonides was a criminal gang thugs muggers and torturers. "Two rabbis plotted to kidnap Jewish husbands, torture them with electric cattle prods and force them to grant their desperate wives religious divorces, the feds charged.."

@@termination9353 He was a greater man than a planet filled with billions of you combined.

@@SludgeMan90 You don't even know me.

My hero as a kid was Mickey Mantle. Rambam could never hit a home run let alone more than 500

Imagine being in THAT rule and still He have much bigger things to your name even then that,from Revolutionizing Judiasm to writing Dozens Medical works,to writing work(guide of the perplex)that brought back much of Greek philosophy back to Christianity...

What happened at Purim ?

@@babaopizza the government had scheduled days for families to celebrate the holiday but heavily restricted. However in several districts in cities like Tel Aviv the night before the restrictions came in there was mass public parties/gatherings in the street

I filmed this before any of that.

@@SamAronow fair enough 🙂 Still doesn’t take away that it’s an brilliant video. Awesome job and keep up the good work

@@SamAronow Apperciated as a Tiberian

And St. Augustine got many ideas from the Tanach. Your point?

@@zenodotusofathens2122 I was pointing out a historical error (which I am pretty sure he addresses in his corrections video on this period). I am not making any larger argument.

@@realmless4193 Sure. More appropriately you have an hypothesis.

@@zenodotusofathens2122 I don't think you get it. Augustine was influential in the Church very early on and his understanding of evil would become the traditional Catholic position long before the time of Maimonides or Aquinas. Even if Aquinas didn't get the idea directly from Augustine (which is unlikely since Aquinas quotes him so much), he would have still gotten that understanding from the Catholic Church who got it from Augustine. If he did find it in Maimonides, it would not have been the source of his idea of evil and good, but he would have seen a mere interesting agreement between Maimonides and the Catholic tradition he was raised in and systematized.

It reminds me of my grandmother.

@@SamAronow lol. Btw love ur chanel sam

@@dovbarleib3256 Perses (פרס) and vulture (נשר) are two different animals in Hebrew. And Eagle (עיט) is a whole other thing.

I didn't know that!

On number 3, Maimonides himself stated that he opposed the mysticism of his era. However, your point is 100% correct. The problem here is that there is an anachronistic disconnect between what we think of as mysticism and what he understood to be science. All that mystical stuff that he wrote about was considered rational science in his days, so we shouldn't really judge him by our modern standards. I prefer to think that he was sincere in his opposition to mysticism. It's just that a lot of his "science" are mystical thoughts to us today.

@@andrewsuryali8540 I think we have different ideas of the word "mysticisem". I think you are including in the term the psuedo sciences like astrology and talismanic and magical practices that maimonides did oppose. He advocated as spirituality based on knowledge and the use of the intelect, and that coincided to he percieved scientific reality. But to ignore the spiritual component in his work is to miss entirely what maimonides was about. What I mean by mysticsem is the practice of techniques aimed to achieve altered states if conscienceness in order to comuunicate with or attain kowledge of a higher reality. Knowledge and communion with God, to be more specific, who is reality in the absolute. Or in biblical terms, prophecy. Mysticisem In that sense maimonides did not only not oppose but made his life mission and main purpose of the guide to instruct the student in how to achieve it.

@@CanisExMachina "I think you are including in the term the psuedo sciences like astrology and talismanic and magical practices that maimonides did oppose." Yes, that's my point. Maimonides openly stated that he opposed these because to him this was "mysticism" as opposed to "sciences". In this he was heavily influenced by "modernizing" Muslim scholars of his day who were starting to develop rational thought in their own philosophical framework by rejecting what to them was mysticism. They made clear distinction in that time between "sihr" (magic/mystical arts) and "ilm" (rational knowledge/sciences). Talismans = sihr, geomancy = ilm. The problem is that they didn't go far enough. "What I mean by mysticsem is the practice of techniques aimed to achieve altered states if conscienceness in order to comuunicate with or attain kowledge of a higher reality. Knowledfe and communion with God, to be more specific, who is reality in the absolute, or in biblical terms, prophecy. " You're describing the Islamic branch of Neo-Platonism. Today this is considered mysticism, but in Maimonides' era, and especially in the Islamic world, this was considered a rational science (ilm). It's the same kind of "science" as geomancy and alchemy and it's called Ghayyat al-Hakim (the goal/contemplation of the sage). To Maimonides this was not that different from how a modern secular scholar would study earth sciences (descended from geomancy), chemistry (descended from alchemy), and philosophy. The point I'm making is that definitions of mysticism have evolved over the years as science became "harder". Sir Isaac Newton was to himself and to most of Europe a man of the Natural Philosophies (science) but he too engaged in alchemy and his own version of neoplatonist thought exploration. He came up with the understanding of light as a wave because he literally wanted to study light to "see" God. Today we consider this mysticism, but the man himself would have been offended by the label because to him there was nothing mystical about it. Same with how Maimonides treated his explorations of Ghayyat al-Hakim. He would have been offended by the label we now attach to that "science".

@@andrewsuryali8540 I agree with you that maimonides a very rational and science oriented approach to life's questions including religion, spirituality and theology. He wanted a relegion based on reason and proven facts not imagination. It would be very interesting to see how he would tackle the same questions he deals with in the guide with the vastly different science and cosmology. But my point was that the video presents him as a sort of proto secular philosopher/scientist and dosen't acknowledge how much of deeply spiritual person he was. His entire life's work was to bring true illumination to those who could recieve his teachings. His intelect based philosophy sometimes obscures this side of him, but we must remeber that the peak of intellectual achievement and the aim of all sciences in his eyes was knowledge of God. IThat wouldn't have changed even if he lived in our era. I know this a secular history channel but you can't just ignore the parts of history you don't appreciate. It does injustice to maimonides, who's ideals are misrepresened, and to us, who don't get the full picture.

He claimed in his own writing to have been born in 1138. Later authorities misdated his birth and for some reason it stuck. I gotta say, it’s nice to have someone whose actual notes have survived.

Thanks! I pronounce it the modern Israeli way because that's just how I learned to speak Hebrew, so it's instinctive.

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@@SamAronow thank you!

He already made a video about Judaism in India, and said in the last corrections video that he has plans for other similar videos in the future but not any time soon unless someone wants to collab on the topic (like how the India video was a part of a collab of history channels about the history of India). Though I agree, the communities I'm probably most interested in hearing more about are Ethiopian and Chinese Jews.

Abulafia has a commentary on the guide? which ones are they?

These saints are the liars who say that they do the miracles of the prophets, they said that all the sons of Adam sin, but these saints said we do not sin

It is all listed in the end credits.

Yeah that sounded like nonsense to me too