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The Mishneh Torah (Hebrew: מִשְׁנֵה תוֹרָה, lit. 'repetition of the Torah'), also known as Sefer Yad ha-Hazaka (ספר יד החזקה, 'book of the strong hand'), is a code of Rabbinic Jewish religious law authored by Maimonides (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon/Rambam).
Karaite Judaism, for example, recognises only the Tanakh as authoritative in Halakha (Jewish religious law) and theology. It rejects the codification of the Oral Torah in the Mishnah and Talmud and subsequent works of mainstream Rabbinic Judaism which maintain that the Talmud is an authoritative interpretation of the Torah.
Kessef Mishneh: Yosef Karo: Venice: 1574 Lechem Mishneh: Abraham de Boton: Venice: 1609 Mishneh LaMelech: Yehudah Rosanes: Hagahot Maimoniot: Rabbi Meir ben Rabbi Yekusiel HaKohen: Yad Hamelech: Rabbi Eleazar Segal Landau Merkevet HaMishneh: Shlomo ben Moshe of Chełm: Frankfurt (Oder) 1751 Kiryat Sefer: Moses ben Joseph di Trani: Venice: 1551
The Mishneh Torah by Maimonides (1135–1204). This work encompasses the full range of Talmudic law; it is organized and reformulated in a logical system – in 14 books, 83 sections and 1000 chapters – with each halakha stated clearly. The Mishneh Torah is very influential to this day, and several later works reproduce passages verbatim.
The manuscript was purchased in Damascus in 1908 by the Toledano brothers, who sold it to the noted bibliophile David Solomon Sassoon (Collection no. 72-73) and his descendants. It was acquired by the Jewish National and University Library in 1975. Moses ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides, was a Jewish theologian, philosopher, and physician.
Note also that the interpretation as "monetary compensation" is borne out by Num 35:30–31, implying that only in the case of murder is Lex talionis applied (per logic of following paragraph). The Oral Torah is similarly needed to explain commandments - as well as actions of biblical actors - seemingly discordant with other verses.
The Torah (/ ˈ t ɔːr ə / or / ˈ t oʊ r ə /; [1] Biblical Hebrew: תּוֹרָה Tōrā, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. [2] The Torah is also known as the Pentateuch (/ ˈ p ɛ n t ə tj uː k /) or ...
Nevertheless, the influence of the Brisker method is great. Most modern-day Yeshivot study the Talmud using the Brisker method in some form. One feature of this method is the use of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah as a guide to Talmudic interpretation, as distinct from its use as a source of practical halakha.