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Document Details : Title: Les sacrifices, la prière, et l'étude chez Maïmonide Author(s): HERVEY, W. Zéev Journal: Revue des Études Juives Volume: 154 Issue: 1-2 Date: janvier-juin 1995 Pages: 97-103 DOI: 10.2143/REJ.154.1.519431 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 Menaḥot 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. |
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