Bible interpretations Archives

13 12, 2015

Maimonides’ Great Secret

By Israel Drazin|2015-12-13T05:56:34-07:00December 13th, 2015|Thoughts|

Maimonides’ Great Secret: A New Understanding of the Bible One of the most overlooked revelations of Maimonides, one that profoundly affects how the Bible should be interpreted, is the clarification that he gives in his Guide of the Perplexed 2:48. This important insight is contained in the last chapter of the second of his [...]

1 08, 2013

Some Chassidic Mystical Notions

By Israel Drazin|2013-08-01T04:33:54-07:00August 1st, 2013|Book Reviews, Thoughts|

Review by Israel Drazin The two volume series Speaking Torah by Arthur Green collects generally mystical comments and commentaries from over forty Chassidic rabbis who lived during the first three generation of the Chasidic Movement, from 1740 to 1815. I described the history of the Chassidim during this early period [...]