Yehuda Halper on Maimonides and the Human Condition

Recently, the Israeli professor of Jewish philosophy Yehuda Halper joined Mosaic’s editor Jonathan Silver to discuss Maimonides, the Rambam, perhaps the most significant medieval rabbinic sage and Jewish philosopher. They discussed Maimonides’ life and the main genres of his work—his commentary on Jewish law, his codification of Jewish law, his elaboration of philosophic mysteries that he believed are embedded in the biblical and rabbinic corpus, his writings on science and medicine, and his views on the laws pertaining to Torah study.