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Book SynopsisA finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Award for scholarship--a broad, systematic account of one of the most original and creative kabbalists, biblical interpreters, and Talmudic scholars the Jewish tradition has ever producedBeautifully written, Moshe Halbertal's groundbreaking book is exceptional in its capability to penetrate to the heart of Nahmanides's thinking and worldview. An admirable achievement.Adam Afterman, Tel Aviv UniversityMagisterial. . . . Halbertal displays here his well-established talent for making abstruse ideas accessible to a non-specialist readership.Los Angeles Review of Books' Marginalia Rabbi Moses b. Nahman (11941270), known in English as Nahmanides, was the greatest Talmudic scholar of the thirteenth century and one of the deepest and most original biblical interpreters. Beyond his monumental scholastic achievements, Nahmanides was a distinguished kabbalist and mystic, and in his commentary on the Torah he dispensed esoteric kabbalistic teachings th
Trade ReviewFinalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Scholarship category, sponsored by The Jewish Book Council
“Beautifully written, Moshe Halbertal’s groundbreaking book is exceptional in its capability to penetrate to the heart of Nahmanides’s thinking and worldview. An admirable achievement.”—Adam Afterman, Tel Aviv University
“Moshe Halbertal masterfully analyzes and synthesizes the thought of a major Jewish intellectual icon. This book is without peer.”—Jonathan Dauber, Yeshiva University
“Moshe Halbertal is the lucid expositor of complex ideas
par excellence. In this magisterial volume he meets his ideal subject, positioning Nahmanides at the apex of a creative revolution in Jewish thought.”—Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University
“Moshe Halbertal’s splendid book deeply engages Nahmanides's oeuvre. Its comprehensive analysis explores the variegated intellectual activity of one of the pillars of the Jewish Middle Ages, profoundly illuminating Nahmanides's worldview.”—Moshe Idel, author of
Kabbalah: New Perspectives
