Critical Notes on the Mishneh Torah

Moses ha-Kohen of Lunel

Critical Notes on Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of the Principles of the Torah 5:5, Laws of Prayer and the Priestly Blessing 3:5, Laws of Rest on the Tenth of Tishre (Yom Kippur) 1:5, Laws of Rest on a Holiday 1:1, Laws of Marriage 3:20

Late 12th Century

Women who were told by idol worshipers, “Give us one of you, and we will defile her. And if not, we will defile all of you,” let them all be defiled. [ . . . ] However, if they single [someone] out and say: “Give us So-and-so or we will kill all of you,” [ . . . ] if that person is not [otherwise] deserving of death, they should allow themselves…

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These passages are excerpted from Moses ha-Kohen’s critical comments on the Mishneh Torah of Moses Maimonides (1138–1204). Some of them echo those made by Abraham ben David of Posquières (1125–1198), who may have been Moses ha-Kohen’s teacher or his colleague. Like many Provençal figures of his day, Moses ha-Kohen cited a “corrected version” of the Mishneh Torah, perhaps one copied from a manuscript written in Maimonides’ own hand.

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