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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Guide of the Perplexedby: Moses Maimonides  Amazon.com's Price: $8.95 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 181.06 EAN: 9780872203242 Edition: Abridged Format: Abridged ISBN: 0872203247 Label: Hackett Publishing Company Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 149 Publication Date: 1995-10 Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Studio: Hackett Publishing Company Related Items:
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 Rating:  - No editing, pleaseMaimonides is one of those authors whose works should not be edited. The whole thing or nothing. Guide is not simply a collection of Rabbinic opinions from the time of AKIBA more or less. M-Torah is much more of that sort than Guide. There is a line from Akiba through Maimonides to Spinoza to the age of modern science. M-Torah can be read without belief that Maimonides held to a single metaphysical word. No so Guide. The fact that Nachmonides cites ... Read More Rating: - Guide unreadHaven't had time to read it. It WAS poorly packed and the cover and some pages were folded back. Rating:  - A clear guide to contemporary difficult questionsI found this book clear and directly related to questions that perplexed me. Often Maimonides' answers are more clear and direct than anything I ever heared. I was most impressed by his explanation for the original sin and for Adam expulsion from paradise. Of course, it had nothing to do with sex. The sin was in that God gave the mind to Adam to think for himself. But thinking is too hard. Adam refused to think. Instead he ate from the tree of knowledge, that is he acquired "shortcuts," "rules of thumb," ... Read More Rating: - Monument of rabbinical exegis and not a philosophical treatiseThe appreciation of the book will depend greatly on your level of comfort with the rabbinical view. If you seek a philosophical approach you might be better of with Aristotle and modern science, and if you are interested in rabbinical exegis then go to the source and study the Talmud and other works. Maimonides possesses immense authority and is distanced from us by many centuries. He gives invaluable insight into certain issues but at the same time creates or entrenches other fundamental perplexities open ... Read More Rating: - Less perplexed, more questionsVol. I, part 1 The "guide" is a key to unlock doors (why would this be so hidden from us?). "This will be a key permitting one to enter places the gates to which were locked." All difficulties will not be removed though. The "guide" will help clear doubt and difficulty with bible passages, help us discern between the literal and the figurative, and help in finding the meaning in the parables. I am now less perplexed, although have more questions. Maimonides, through his great ... Read More 
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