Les sacrifices, la prière et l'étude chez Maïmonide
Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: Maimonides explains (Guide, III, 32) that the sacrifices were instituted in Israel as an accommodation to the habits of the times. An idolatrous practice was cleverly turned into a form of divine worship. As an halakhist, Maimonides was the champion of the laws of sacrifices. Others ignored them as anachronistic, but he elaborated and codified them. One must study these laws, he wrote, because studying them is tantamount to offering the sacrifices (Commentary on Menahot 13 :11). In fact, it is preferable ! Sacrifices are crass, prayer more spiritual, but the study of the sacrifices is a higher form of worship than both.
Source: Persée
Author: Harvey, Warren
Language: French
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2505609226