The
Mishneh Torah (
Hebrew ???? ????), subtitled
Sefer Yad ha-Chazaka (?? ?????), is a
code of
Jewish religious law (
Halakha)]] by one of the important
Jewish authority
Maimonides (
Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, also known by the Hebrew abbreviation
RaMBaM, usually written "Rambam" in English). The Mishneh Torah was compiled between
1170 and
1180, while he was living in
Egypt, and is regarded as Maimonides' magnum opus.
The work consists of 14 books, subdivided into sections, chapters and paragraphs. It is the only post-Talmudic work that details all of Jewish observance, including those laws which are only applicable when the Holy Temple is in place.
The Mishneh Torah is written in Hebrew in the style of the Mishnah. Maimonides was reluctant to write in Talmudic Aramaic, since it was not widely known[1]. His previous works had been written in Arabic.
The intention was to provide a complete statement of the Oral Law, so that a person who mastered first the Written Torah and then the Mishneh Torah would be in no need of any other book.
