Mishne Torah — Maimonides
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Issue 01 — Fall 2019 — Session 02 —
Microliteratures: In the Margins of the Law
By Jesús R. Velasco | Published on August 22, 2019
By Jesús R. Velasco | Published on August 22, 2019
In this introduction, Maimonides presents the "Torah in the mouth", or the part of the law that, produced at the same time of the written law, was not to be written, but to be transmitted by tradition.
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The Rambam’s Introduction to the Mishneh Torah
“In the name of God, Lord of the world: “Then I will not be ashamed when I gaze at all Your mitzvot”(Psalms 119:6). The mitzvot given to Moses at Mount Sinai were all given together with their explanations, as implied by [Exodus 24:12]: “And I will give you the tablets of stone, the Torah, and the mitzvah.”“The Torah” refers to the Written Law; “the mitzvah,” to its explanation. [God] commanded us to fulfill “the Torah” according to [the instructions of] “the mitzvah.” “The mitzvah” is called the Oral Law.
