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happy to offer a simple commentary, its job would have classified among
the best. But he had the other desires besides giving a simple explanation
of the text. He had, in according to place, a theological motive, to justify God and
discovers in the words of Sacred writings an unknown meaning. In the Biblical one
accounts, Nachmanides sees _types_ of the history of man. This way, the
account of the six days of the creation is turned into a prophecy of the
events that would happen during the neighbors you are thousand years and the
seventh day is a type of the millennium. Also, therefore the discoveries of Nachmanides
symbolical feels in Scriptural texts, "for, in the Torah, it is hidden
every wonders and every mystery, and in his/her treasures you/he/she is sealed each
the beauty of the wisdom." Nachmanides finally, wrote, not only for instructive
and thin theological, but also for the building. Its third purpose was
"to bring the peace to the minds of students (working under persecution
and trouble), when they read the portion of the Pentateuch on Saturdays
and parties, and to attract their hearts from the simple explanations and
sweet words." Its his/her own enthusiastic and loving temperament speaks to this
part of his/her commentary. It is true, as Graetz says, that Nachmanideses
practiced more influence on contemporary his/her and on centuries following from
his/her personality that from his/her writings. But it has to be assistant that the
writings of Nachmanides are its personality.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NACHMANIDES.
I.H. Weiss, _Study of the Talmud in the thirteenth Century_,
_J.Q.R._, ME, P. 289.
S. Schechter.--_Studies in Judaism_, p. 99 [120].
Graetz.--III, 17; also III, p. 598 [617].
JACOB TAM.
Graetz.--III, P. 375 [385].
TOSSAFISTS.
Graetz.--III, P. 344 [351], 403 [415].
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THE ZOHAR E LATER THE MYSTICISM
Kabbala.--The Bahir.--Abulafia.--Moses of Leon.--The
Zohar.--Isaac Lurya.--Isaiah Hurwitz.--Cristiano
Kabbalists.--The Chassidim.