Friday, January 11, 2013

A Maimonidean political endorsement

Good thing the Rambam has peyos now. החזיר עטרה ליושנה.



















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17 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:48 PM, January 11, 2013

    He probably had peyos tucked behind his ears before :)

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  2. Mar Gavriel1:15 PM, January 11, 2013

    Do you think the historical Moses Maimonides had 'em?

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  3. S.1:21 PM, January 11, 2013

    Sideburn-y beard thing? I have no idea, but I can't imagine he had no shitta at all about it. There is a teshuva where he says that there is no reason to grow peyos, but that's hardly the same thing as being mevatel a de-oraysa, so I'm sure even in his most Islamic miliuiness he had what qualified, according to him, as 'not rounding the corners of his head.'

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  4. Anonymous3:14 PM, January 11, 2013

    Who is Amsalem quoting? What does that Frenk know about the Rambam?!

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  5. Shalom Berger1:58 PM, January 12, 2013

    I have always understood the Rambam's position as permitting removing pe'at ha-rosh with a scissors even le-hat'hilah - see Avodah Zarah 12:6 http://www.mechon-mamre.org/i/1412.htm#6 (he does not begin discussing pe'at ha-zakan until the next halakhah). I recognize that others do not understand the Rambam that way, but I do not know why.

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  6. Benjamin of Tudela4:25 PM, January 12, 2013

    There is quite a long discussion on the famous portrait of Maimondes, here - http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%95_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%91%22%D7%9D

    If I follow correctly than the earliest known version of this portrait does actually have Peyos.

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    1. S.6:28 PM, January 12, 2013

      Reb Benjamin, see the extra links there (link). ;-)

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    2. Anonymous9:27 PM, January 12, 2013

      I found it interesting that there is two links to this blog in the hebrew wikipedia, and non in the English.

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    3. Milhouse11:21 AM, January 28, 2013

      English WP is big on "reliable sources", and blogs are streng verboten

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    4. S.11:29 AM, January 28, 2013

      I have my share of links on English Wiki. To my knowledge none have ever been added and subsequently removed.

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  7. Pactura Observa11:57 AM, January 13, 2013

    What would you say about this one?
    See the changed http://home.comcast.net/~harrietr/images/Rabbi-Rice.jpg
    and see the original http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/AbrahamRice.jpg
    Mudneh, no?

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    1. Milhouse11:25 AM, January 28, 2013

      How do you know that's the original of the first one?

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    2. S.11:34 AM, January 28, 2013

      I agree. They may both be authentic portraits, although I have my suspicion that the one from that Baltimore congregation was posthumous since, and I could be wrong, the charcoal style does not look mid-19th century to me.

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