Nahmanides

He himself, by the way, never risked his skin as a combat soldier - this national hero served as an NCO for religious services in a transport unit. 800 years ago, Rabbi Moshe Ben-Nahman, called Nahmanides, coined the phrase "Scoundrel with the permission of the Torah" - meaning a person who does despicable things which are not expressly forbidden in the Bible.

unknown title 2009

This provided fodder for numerous anti-Jewish polemics (of which Contra iudaeorum harinationem callithricum is the best known), until Nahmanides was forced to recant.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Passover and the charination ritual 2010

Love and Ecstasy 1. Nahmanides on Genesis 12:6, based on Tanhuma Lech Lecha 9.

The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010

The roots of this are in the early 13th century, when the Judaeo-Catalan sage Nahmanides opined, in a widely circulated responsum, that just as it was mandatory to get rid of chametz in preparation for Passover, it was also forbidden to get rid of anything that was not chametz, as this would be improperly adding to the commandments Deut.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Passover and the charination ritual 2010

This provided fodder for numerous anti-Jewish polemics of which Contra iudaeorum harinationem callithricum is the best known, until Nahmanides was forced to recant.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Passover and the charination ritual 2010

In the closing passage to his 1998 book, Problems and Parables of Law: Maimonides and Nahmanides on the Reasons for the Commandments, Josef Stern provides us with a fascinating insight into the way this "Clash of Civilizations" has played out:

David Shasha: Dangerous Mystic Motifs in Judaism 2010

Rabbi Moses ben Nahman (Nahmanides, 1194 – 1270) disagrees, maintaining that this precept is not time-dependent and is, therefore, equally obligatory on women (Ramban on Kiddushin 34a).

Festivals and Holy Days. 2009

While explaining a discussion between Rachel and her father Laban in Genesis 31: 35, Nahmanides adds this:

Baraita de-Niddah. 2009

We also have the testimony of the master himself, but in his words we hear of a Baraita, not a Baraita de-Niddah, which he claims to have seen in writings of the Geonim, those rabbis active in Babylonia (current day Iraq) from the seventh to the eleventh centuries c.e. About five decades later we hear again of a similar title from Moses ben Nahman, known as Ramban or Nahmanides (1194 – 1270).

Baraita de-Niddah. 2009

The quotations cited by Nahmanides are found, with slight changes, in both versions.

Baraita de-Niddah. 2009