Mishneh Torah Archives - Dr Israel Drazin

7 05, 2017

Some information about Maimonides’ Code of Jewish Laws

By Israel Drazin|2017-05-07T20:12:05-07:00May 7th, 2017|Thoughts|

Many Jews turned to the Talmud to discover what the rabbis felt God desired them to do. The problem was that the Talmud was not composed to teach this. The Talmud is a compendium of the views of a host of rabbis on various subjects, but it does not state which view is the [...]

9 05, 2016

Why Do Rabbis Prefer the Shulchan Arukh over Maimonides’ Code of Law?

By Israel Drazin|2016-05-09T07:32:21-07:00May 9th, 2016|Thoughts|

Why Do Rabbis Prefer the Shulchan Arukh over Maimonides’ Code of Law? Maimonides’ fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah was the first, most comprehensive, most readable, and best-organized code of Jewish law. It is no surprise, for example, that the fourteen books of his code are so expertly crafted [...]