Seymour Feldman

Les trente probl mes explorent diverses questions, y compris l'existence d'un d but du monde, la nature de la mati re premi re, l'origine de la connaissance de la cr ation de Mo se, l'universalit de cette connaissance, la dur e de la cr ation du monde, l'existence d'autres mondes avant le n tre, l' manation directe de Dieu, le nombre d' l ments n cessaires la cr ation, la cr ation des mes et des corps, la cr ation du Paradis et de l'Enfer, l'existence du Purgatoire, la cr ation des d mons et des anges, la rondeur du ciel, la cause finale de la cr ation du monde, et l'alt rabilit du monde s'il est ternel. Ces probl mes invitent de profondes r flexions sur la nature de l'existence et de la foi. Manass Ben Isra l, n La Rochelle, France vers 1604 et enterr Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, R publique n erlandaise en 1657, est connu pour avoir fond la premi re imprimerie h bra que Amsterdam (Cardozo de B thencourt, 1904; Levy, 1924; H. P. Solomon, 1983; Meinsma, 2006; S. Rauschenbach, 2019). ses propres frais, il a auto-publi Trente Probl mes Concernant la Cr ation (De Creatione Problemata XXX) depuis sa maison. Ce travail visait restaurer la doctrine classique de la cr ation et aborder des questions philosophiques et th ologiques complexes li es la cr ation du monde et la foi. La pr sente dition est la premi re traduction de l' dition latine qui a t publi e en 1635, il y a pr s de 400 ans. https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWaATAunh1o

Gersonides (1288-1344), known also as Ralbag, was a philosopher of the first rank as well as an astronomer and biblical exegete, yet this is the first English-language study of the significance of his work for Jewish thought. Seymour Feldman, the acclaimed translator of Gersonides' most important work, The Wars of the Lord - a complete philosophical system and astronomical encyclopedia - has written a comprehensive picture of Gersonides' philosophy that is both descriptive and evaluative. Unusually for a Jewish scholar, Gersonides had contacts with several Christian notables and scholars. It is known that these related to mathematical and astronomical matters; the extent to which these contacts also influenced his philosophical thought is a matter of some controversy. Unquestionably, however, he wrote a veritable library of philosophical, scientific, and exegetical works that testify not only to the range of his intellectual concerns but also to his attempt to forge a philosophical-scientific synthesis between these secular sciences and Judaism. Unlike many modern scientists or philosophers, who either scorn religion or compartmentalize it, he did not see any fundamental discrepancy between the pursuit of truth via reason and its attainment through divine revelation: there is only one truth, with which both reason and revelation must agree. As a philosopher-scientist and biblical exegete Gersonides sought to make this agreement robustly evident. While philosophical and scientific ideas have progressed since Gersonides' time, his work is still relevant today because his attempt to make prophecy and miracles understandable in terms of some commonly held philosophical or scientific theory is paradigmatic of a religion that is not afraid of reason. His general principle that reason should function as a 'control' of what we believe has interesting and important implications for the modern reader. Indeed, some of his basic arguments are favoured by many contemporary thinkers who attempt to incorporate modern science into their religious belief system. He was not afraid to make religious beliefs philosophically and scientifically credible; one could say that he pursued an 'ethics of belief' in that he held that there are constraints to what is believable, especially in religion. In this respect he was a precursor of Kant and Hermann Cohen: Judaism is or should be a religion of reason.

The expulsion from Spain did not only result in the destruction and dispersion of Spanish Jewry but led to a crisis in Jewish faith. Don Isaac Abravanel provided a systematic treatment of the main philosophical and theological beliefs of Judaism in an attempt to resolve the inner doubts of his co-religionists. In their Italian exile his son Judah too recognized that Jews were now living in a new cultural world, but he forged a different road for Jews to pursue in their entry into the culture of the Renaissance. This book presents a picture of one family facing the challenges of a new era in Jewish history.

The expulsion from Spain did not only result in the destruction and dispersion of Spanish Jewry but led to a crisis in Jewish faith. Don Isaac Abravanel provided a systematic treatment of the main philosophical and theological beliefs of Judaism in an attempt to resolve the inner doubts of his co-religionists. In their Italian exile his son Judah too recognized that Jews were now living in a new cultural world, but he forged a different road for Jews to pursue in their entry into the culture of the Renaissance. This book presents a picture of one family facing the challenges of a new era in Jewish history.