<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I read it. It’s very good, and it’s what prompted me to reread Uvikashtem Misham.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s perfectly respectable for someone in the Rambam’s era to use neoplatonic ideas without</div><div class="">comment. Today it requires serious justification. The book you cited is RYB’s exposition of the</div><div class="">Rambam’s views, but UM is his exposition of his own views. Those are the views that </div><div class="">require justification.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">DR</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 22, 2016, at 3:54 PM, Rich, Joel <<a href="mailto:JRich@sibson.com" class="">JRich@sibson.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="">You might want to talk to Lawrence Kaplan:</div>
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<div style="text-align: start;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><strong class="">aimonides- Between Philosophy and Halacha -Lawrence Kaplan</strong></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: start;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">This book is based on a series of lectures on the Rambam's Moreh Nevuchim (Guide to The Perplexed) given by The Rav (Rabbi JB Soloveitchik) at The Bernard Revel Graduate
School. It is very heavy lifting and is appropriate in the reviewer's opinion for those with a deep interest in philosophy (i.e. not the reviewer J)</span></div>
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On Jun 22, 2016, at 2:25 PM, David Riceman via Avodah <<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org" class="">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="">I’ve been rereading Uvikeshtem Misham by RYBS, and I find it more puzzling than I recall on my last reading.</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Did he (or someone else) discuss this somewhere?</span><br class="">
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