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October 14, 2024

A Portrait of a Rationalist Sephardi Critic of Maimonides

Meir ha-Levi Abulafia.

Not only the bold philosophical ideas, but also the halakhic writings of Moses Maimonides caused much controversy in the Jewish world in his own day and for at least a century after his death. Tamar Marvin profiles one of the lesser-known Jewish intellectual giants of the Middle Ages, who played a pivotal role in these controversies:

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