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Shaul Shapira's avatar

" Yet saying that there is no reward and punishment or a relationship with Hashem is by all means heresy. We are no longer talking about ‘Rationalists’ or ‘Traditionalists’ anymore."

Similar point here:

http://slifkinchallenge.blogspot.com/2016/07/materialist-judaism-part-iii-maimonides.html

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"But the fact of the matter is that the academicians see no moral or ethical problem with revising the Rambam to conform to their materialistic, mechanistic view of the physical universe.

Hence, they routinely claim the Rambam 1) didn't believe in nature-breaking miracles, 2) didn't believe in Divine Providence (with a few rare exceptions) interfering in human affairs, 3) didn't believe in the efficacy of petitional prayer, 4)the soul being nothing more than "the intellect" or "consciousness" etc.

There are some academics who have gone so far as to say that the Rambam 5) didn't really believe in creation ex-nihilo. They also speculate that his Treatise on the Resurrection was really a ploy to 6) conceal his true disbelief in physical resurrection of the dead. Such is the fantasy world occupied by Judaic Studies professors.

The Rambam is simply not to be taken at his word.

I contend that Dr. Slifkin, who certainly finds these academics more credible than anyone else regarding the true beliefs of the Rambam, if he were to be honest, should re-name his blog "Materialist Judaism"."

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rkz's avatar

As I have commented before in another thread, there was a a whole group of hyper-rationalists in תקופת הראשונים who wrote exactly the same כפירה things, and falsely based themselves on the רמב"ם

אין כל חדש תחת השמש

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