The Ramah's Complex Campaign Against Rambam

🎓 The highly-regarded Toledo authority waged an uphill battle against what he viewed as problematic ideas and positions in Rambam's works—until he found support among the rabbis of northern France.

The opening page (fol. 21א) from Kitab al-Rasail from the sixteenth-century manuscript, British Library, London Ms. Add. 26976, a manuscript that, interestingly, omits the halachic portions of the debate and retains only those dealing with philosophical and theological matters. It is likely based on, or on a common source of, the earlier (fourteenth-cen…