Philosopher Maimonides Influences

My essay will take into consideration the context within which Maimonides was writing. He had observed that the number of disciples was decreasing, disasters were occurring more frequently, the government was increasing its power, which led to an increase in the spread of its domain, and Israelites were wandering and migrating to other countries. I will look at all the traditions; enactments, interpretations, and expositions of every portion of the Torah that Maimonides have collected to combat these problems; these had either come down from Moses or had been deduced by the courts in successive generations. All this material he rewrote in the Mishneh Torah. Maimonides therefore composed a work, which was able to serve as a handbook for all,
Emphasis will be placed on this because the Mishneh Torah changed the entire landscape of Rabbinic tradition. It is known as the Pièce de résistance of all Talmudic study through the ages. Even though it wasn’t adopted as the universal Jewish code and neither was its scope and arrangement features imitated by later codifiers. In order to expand upon this code, it’s important here to include a brief historical overview of the Oral Law and its transmissions. Along with an explanation about the reasons justifying the emergence of a literary corpus, which is the Mishneh and the Talmud embodying oral tradition. Another subject that will be touch upon on in this essay is how Maimonides saw that many Jews, and even some scholars, had lost their sense of the unity and cohesiveness of the Oral
One needs to have a foundation. Maimonides is talking about law here; it’s the gateway to love and fear. Every man and woman has access to the law and everyone has to go through the law and learn the law to be able to concern themselves to esoteric matters. A student must go through all these things before they can even start to think about the work of creation and the chariot. This book speaks to the masses, esoteric. Maimonides believes this type of knowledge is available to everyone. This knowledge can be referred to as the fundamental knowledge. When we fullfill all the commandments of the Torah all the good things in the world will come to us. The cognate is eternal according to Maimonides. One must fulfill the commandments and complete them with a full and correct knowledge. If a person does not have complete and correct knowledge what will they attain in the life to come? Does it suggest people who don’t have it wont have a place to go when they die? According to the greatness of his deeds and the abundance of his knowledge will determine what they receive in the world to come. Maimonides seems to be implying here that the person with greater knowledge will have more in the world to come. For Maimonides, complete and correct knowledge. The people will have a greater reward will only be those who are greater educated. Maimonides believes that the