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R. Nachum Rabinovitch – Intellectual Profile
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Name | Rabbi Dr. Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch הרב נחום אליעזר רבינוביץ |
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Dates | 1928 – 2020 |
Location | Maaleh Adumim, London, Toronto, South Carolina |
Works | Yad Peshutah, Siach Nachum, Mesillot bi-Levavam |
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Influenced by | Maimonides, Rabbi Pinchas Hirschsprung, Yosef Eliyahu Henkin |
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Edition
Background
Life
- Name – Rabbi Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch
- Hebrew name – הרב נחום אליעזר רבינוביץ
- Dates – 1928 – 2020
- Location – Maaleh Adumim, London, Toronto, South Carolina
- Education – Yeshivas Merkaz HaTorah (Montreal), Yeshivas Ner Israel (Baltimore), University of Toronto (Ph.D.)
- Occupation – Rosh Yeshiva, communal rabbi
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- Teachers – Rabbi Pinchas Hirschsprung, Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman
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- Students – Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
- Time period – Modern Era
- World outlook – Religious Zionism, Classical Liberalism1
Works
- Biblical commentaries – Ner le-Netivati: Derashot on the Weekly Parasha (Maale Adumim: 2022) (posthumous)
- Rabbinics –
- Talmudic novellae – Hadar Itamar (Jerusalem: 1972)
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- Commentaries – Mishneh Torah with Commentary Yad Peshutah (Maaleh Adumim: 1984-2019)
- Responsa – Melumadei Milchama (Maaleh Adumim: 1993), Siach Nachum (Maaleh Adumim: 2008)
- Jewish thought – Mesillot bi-Levavam (Maaleh Adumim: 2015)
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Commentary on Mishneh Torah
Rav Rabinovitch's work Yad Peshutah is a multivolume commentary on Rambam's Mishneh Torah. 21 volumes were published during Rav Rabinovitch's lifetime covering eight of the 14 books of the Mishneh Torah.
Characteristics
- Text of the Mishneh Torah – Yad Peshutah makes use of manuscripts of the Mishneh Torah in order to determine the most accurate version of the text (as opposed to the version of the text used in standard print editions of the Mishneh Torah). In addition to presenting a text which aims to be as close as possible to the original version as written by Rambam himself, at times it can be shown that apparent difficulties in the text are in fact the result of inaccuracies in the standard editions. Likewise, Yad Peshutah includes Raavad's commentary on the Mishneh Torah (Hasagot HaRaavad) as taken from manuscripts and not the standard print editions.
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Manuscripts Used
- Introduction: MS Huntington 80 (Oxford, Bodleian Library)
- Sefer HaMadda: MS Huntington 80 (Oxford, Bodleian Library)
- Sefer Ahavah: MS Huntington 80 (Oxford, Bodleian Library)
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