Maimonides
Book of the Commandments (Sefer ha-Mitzvot)
Written work
Book of the Commandments (Sefer ha-Mitzvot)
كتاب الفرائض (Kitāb al-Farā'iḍ) / ספר המצוות
Reasoned enumeration of the 613 commandments of the Torah (248 positive and 365 negative), preceded by fourteen methodological principles determining what counts as a biblical commandment. Written in Arabic in preparation for the *Mishneh Torah*, it argues against the enumeration of *Halakhot Gedolot*. Nahmanides devoted a systematic critique to it. In negative commandment 290 he justifies that no one be condemned on circumstantial evidence, however strong.
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Hebreo
Maimonides
Sefer ha-Mitsvot
The Conscious LibrarySefer ha-Mitsvot
Varsovia, 1883
Translation: Moisés ibn Tibbon (trad. hebrea medieval)
Edición de dominio público digitalizada en Sefaria.
Español
Maimonides
Libro de los preceptos
The Conscious LibraryLibro de los preceptos
Kehot Lubavitch Sudamericana, 2015
ISBN 9789879107737
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- Commentary on the Mishnah (Kitāb al-Sirāj) · 1168
- Introduction to the Mishnah · 1168
- Introduction to Perek Helek: the Thirteen Principles of Faith · 1168
- Eight Chapters · 1168
- Mishneh Torah (The Strong Hand) · 1178
- The Guide of the Perplexed · 1190
- Epistle to Yemen · 1172
- Epistle on Martyrdom (Iggeret ha-Shemad) · 1165
- Treatise on Resurrection · 1191
- Letter on Astrology (to the Sages of Montpellier) · 1195
- Letter to Obadiah the Proselyte · 1180
- Letter to Samuel ibn Tibbon · 1199
- Responsa (Teshuvot) · 1204
- Letters (Iggerot) · 1204
- Laws of the Jerusalem Talmud (fragment) · 1170
- Commentaries on the Babylonian Talmud (lost) · 1160
- Treatise on the Art of Logic · 1160
- Treatise on the Calendar · 1158
- Extracts from Galen (The Art of Cure) · 1190
- Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms · 1195
- Medical Aphorisms (Chapters of Moses) · 1190
- Treatise on Hemorrhoids · 1190
- Treatise on Cohabitation · 1190
- Treatise on Asthma · 1190
- Treatise on Poisons and Their Antidotes · 1199
- Regimen of Health · 1198
- On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them · 1200
- Glossary of Drug Names · 1200
- Chapters on Happiness (spurious)
- Treatise on Unity (doubtful)
- Oath and Prayer of the Physician (spurious) · 1793
- Ethical Will to his Son (spurious)
- Maimonides (Joel L. Kraemer) · 2008
- Maimonides: Life and Thought (Moshe Halbertal) · 2009
Sources
- Davidson, Herbert A. Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works. Oxford/Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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