Sacramento Rabbi Releases Scholarly Examination of Medieval Debates
Rabbi Mendy Cohen, right, learns with a community member in Sacramento, Calif. Photo: Ernie Amos
Rabbi Mendy Cohen, a Sacramento Jewish leader who spends most of his day assisting the local community as co-director of the Chabad-Lubavitch center in the California capital, has written a new book analyzing the philosophical underpinnings to Maimonides’ landmark code of Jewish law and the critical gloss authored by Rabbi Abraham ben David, the 12th-century French commentator better known by his acronymic, the Raavad.
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