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A finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Award for
scholarship--a broad, systematic account of one of the most
original and creative kabbalists, biblical interpreters, and
Talmudic scholars the Jewish tradition has ever produced
"Beautifully written, Moshe Halbertal's groundbreaking book is
exceptional in its capability to penetrate to the heart of
Nahmanides's thinking and worldview. An admirable
achievement."-Adam Afterman, Tel Aviv University "Magisterial. . .
. Halbertal displays here his well-established talent for making
abstruse ideas accessible to a non-specialist readership."-Los
Angeles Review of Books' Marginalia Rabbi Moses b. Nahman
(1194-1270), known in English as Nahmanides, was the greatest
Talmudic scholar of the thirteenth century and one of the deepest
and most original biblical interpreters. Beyond his monumental
scholastic achievements, Nahmanides was a distinguished kabbalist
and mystic, and in his commentary on the Torah he dispensed
esoteric kabbalistic teachings that he termed "By Way of Truth."
This broad, systematic account of Nahmanides's thought explores his
conception of halakhah and his approach to the central concerns of
medieval Jewish thought, including notions of God, history,
revelation, and the reasons for the commandments. The relationship
between Nahmanides's kabbalah and mysticism and the existential
religious drive that nourishes them, as well as the legal and
exoteric aspects of his thinking, are at the center of Moshe
Halbertal's portrayal of Nahmanides as a complex and transformative
thinker.
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