Guest Post: More Evidence From the Rambam On P'sak [Can we "pasken" the age of the universe? (Part 4)]
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Copyright 2014 by David Ohsie. All rights reserved. “The Rambam, more than any other Rishon, rendered specific decisions regarding hashkafah”. -- Rabbi Moshe Meiselman, Torah, Chazal and Science, pg 625. In our last post, we discussed the evidence against the first two elements of Rabbi Meiselman’s thesis: that the Rambam considered P’sak to be optional on non-halachic matters, and in fact did rule definitively on many of these matters in Mishneh Torah. In this post, we provide additional evidence.
Guest Post: More Evidence From the Rambam On P'sak [Can we "pasken" the age of the universe? (Part 4)]
Guest Post: More Evidence From the Rambam On…
Guest Post: More Evidence From the Rambam On P'sak [Can we "pasken" the age of the universe? (Part 4)]
Copyright 2014 by David Ohsie. All rights reserved. “The Rambam, more than any other Rishon, rendered specific decisions regarding hashkafah”. -- Rabbi Moshe Meiselman, Torah, Chazal and Science, pg 625. In our last post, we discussed the evidence against the first two elements of Rabbi Meiselman’s thesis: that the Rambam considered P’sak to be optional on non-halachic matters, and in fact did rule definitively on many of these matters in Mishneh Torah. In this post, we provide additional evidence.