[Avodah] Truth and the Rambam

David Riceman driceman at optimum.net
Sun Oct 3 10:15:05 PDT 2010


  RMB:

<<Does this not say that the Rambam lost faith in relying on the geonim
> to interpret the rishonim over just going to the books himself? His
> own reason and definition of mitake trumps the value of the earlier
> source.>>
See Twersky, "Introduction to the Code of Maimonides", pp.160 ff., and 
Blidstein "Where Do We Stand in the Study of Maimonidean Halacha?" (in 
Twersky, "Studies in Maimonides"), pp. 23-29.

David Riceman




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