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Daily Rambam Study is an annual study cycle that includes the daily study of Maimonides' magnum opus, Mishneh Torah. The study regimen was initiated by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in the spring of 1984 [1] with three tracks. The first track includes studying three chapters a day, so that the entire fourteen books are completed in less than ...
Parallel to the three- or one-chapter(s)-a-day cycle, there is a daily study of the Sefer Hamitzvot "Book of the Commandments", also authored by Maimonides. A popular commentary, Rambam La'Am ('Rambam for the Nation'), was produced in 1971 by Rabbi Shmuel Tanchum Rubinstein (published by Mossad Harav Kook).
Rambam La'Am: Shmuel Tanchum Rubinstein: Mossad Harav Kook, Jerusalem 1971 Iyyunim BaMishneh Torah LeHaRambam: Jose Faur: Mossad Harav Kook, Jerusalem 1978 Biyur al Mishneh Torah LeRambam: Adin Steinsaltz: Koren Publishers, Jersualem 2017 Chiddushei Rabbeinu Meshulam Dovid Halevi Al HaRambam: Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik: Jerusalem 2021
Marc B. Shapiro (Hebrew: מלך שפירא, born 1966) is a rabbi, professor, and the author of various books and articles on Jewish history, philosophy, theology, and rabbinic literature. Education and career
Moses ben Maimon [a] (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (/ m aɪ ˈ m ɒ n ɪ d iː z /, my-MON-ih-deez) [b] and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (Hebrew: רמב״ם), [c] was a Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.
The work is based on the rules of study laid down in the Peri Etz Chaim of Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, in the Sha'ar Hanhagat Limmud (chapter on study habits). In this he recommends that, in addition to studying the Torah portion for the forthcoming Shabbat each week, one should study daily excerpts from the other works mentioned, and lays down a formula for the number of verses or the topic to ...
Sefer Hamitzvot ("Book of Commandments", Hebrew: ספר המצוות) is a work by the 12th-century rabbi, philosopher, and physician, Moses Maimonides.While there are various other works titled similarly, the title "Sefer Hamitzvot" without a modifier refers to Maimonides' work.
The Hebrew and English bible text is the New JPS version. It contains a number of commentaries, written in English, on the Torah which run alongside the Hebrew text and its English translation, and it also contains a number of essays on the Torah and Tanakh in the back of the book.