Someone of the caliber of Maimonides and Rashi
Rabbi Michi Shalom.
I saw a bit of your position on the decline of generations. Do you think figures like Maimonides and Rashi don’t prove that there is a decline of generations? After all, we look at their works and it seems inhuman.
No. Indeed, impressive works, but there can certainly be others like them today. Beyond that, according to your opinion, there is the rise of generations, since their works are much more impressive than the Talmud, the Rif, and the Ge’onim.
I wouldn't put the Rambam next to Rashi. He wasn't like the Rambam. By the way, when I would read the Bible with Rashi, it would destroy me. 'Inhuman' because that's how they influenced you to perceive them. But they and their works were completely human. They studied in a certain way and worked hard all day and all night and didn't have all the idle pursuits of our time. If you were busy studying in a certain way and worked hard like them, maybe one like them would grow out of you.
On the 15th of Av, 5752
No, ’ – Shalom Rav,
In terms of leisure to study day and night, it seems that the first had much less time than we do. Both Rashi and the Maimonides were busy with their livelihoods – Rashi as a wine merchant and the Maimonides as a physician – and not in order to receive a reward, they were also busy with all public affairs, their troubles and their burdens.
Perhaps precisely when under pressure of time – the study is more focused and purposeful, and one succeeds in reaching the fullest and clarifying the truth?
With greetings, Shalom
Have you seen what a waste of time is?
Until the age of 39, the Rambam was engaged only in Torah, and before earning a living as a physician, he completed most of his halachic works. Rabbi David the Governor said from the mouth of his father, Rabbi Moshe, about the composition of the Mishneh Torah: For ten years Rabbi Moshe would sit in his room and would not leave the door until they were finished.
It is accepted that Rashi earned his living by selling wine, but there is no evidence for this. Rashi's knowledge of growing vines and making wine may have been acquired from his father, who made a meager living by selling wine. In any case, Rashi was the head of a yeshiva where thousands of students studied, and as Rabbi Yochanan said: If the rabbi is like the angel of the Lord, they will seek Torah from him.
If the Rambam had created an airplane and discovered how to fly in the air, it would have been much more impressive than writing something that many later debated whether it was true or false.
You need to grasp the Mishnah Torah from this. It is a work with precise language that managed to distill the entire world of Talmud and Midrash into laws arranged by topic. It is the work of a master. Today, entire teams work for decades to prepare a Talmudic encyclopedia. And in addition to all this, he authored many other writings on thought and medicine. He was also the governor of the Jews. He was the king's physician. You can imagine someone with abilities like Maimonides. There was no such thing, friends.
And as for Rashi, there is no commentator who has managed to give such a concise and precise commentary on the entire Talmud. As for the commenter A, who, in my opinion, underestimated his commentary on the Torah a little. There is an interesting quote cited by the Hidda. The Rabbi says that he can understand how to do a commentary like Rashi on the Talmud, but he does not understand how he managed to do the commentary on the Torah.
These are two giants that we have not seen in later generations, in my opinion.
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