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To reconcile the two parties, Nachmanides proposed that the ban against the philosophical portion of Maimonides's Code of Jewish law should be revoked, but that the ban against public study of the Guide for the Perplexed, and against those who rejected allegorical interpretation of the Bible, should be maintained and even strengthened.
Moses Maimonides (Rambam, 1138–1204) and Moses Nahmanides (Ramban, 1194–1270) expressed two very different approaches to its meaning. In order to understand the nature of this debate, I start with their debate over the nature of sacrifices. Sacrifices—Maimonides vs. Nahmanides.
(1194 - 1270) Moshe ben Nachman (Nachmanides or the Ramban) was the foremost halakhist of his age. Like Maimonides before him, Nachmanides was a Spaniard who was both a physician and a great Torah scholar. However, unlike the rationalist Maimonides, Nachmanides had a strong mystical bent.
Maimonides' tone is authoritative and his style is clear cut, even when writing out of impassioned sympathy for the distress of the Yemenite Jews; Nahmanides, on the other hand, is extremely apologetic, wavers here and there, and tries to compromise contrasting ideas.
The Disputation of Ramban (Nachmanides) Religious disputations between Jews and followers of other religions first appear in Biblical times. Abraham debated belief in one G‑d with King Nimrod and his followers. Elijah 's confrontation with the prophets of Baal had elements of a religious debate.
Personalities of the Bible. Rabbi Moses ben Nahman, a.k.a. Nahmanides, also known by the acronym of his initials, Ramban, was a medieval Spanish Jewish rabbi and thinker who wrote famous commentaries on the Torah and the Talmud. He was also a philosopher, poet and physician. In addition to his commentaries on Jewish sacred texts, he left behind ...
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Moses ben Maimon [a] (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides ( / maɪˈmɒnɪdiːz / my-MON-ih-deez) [b] and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam ( Hebrew: רמב״ם) [c], was a Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.
