[Avodah] Truth and the Rambam

[David Riceman]

  On 10/3/2010 1:15 PM, I wrote:
>  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.

And see Benedict, "HaRambam l'lo Stiyah min haTalmud", pp.56-58, p.69 
item 3, p. 103, the paragraph beginning "b'ram", and note 35 on p. 254.

Someone asked for a summary, but they're all fairly dense discussions of 
the Rambam's dependence (both in psak and organization) on the Ri 
MiGash, the Rif, and the Geonim.

David  Riceman