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The Palacio Molina de Cartagena will host on Tuesday, February 19, the introductory lecture course The Thirteen Principles of Faith by Maimonides Chief Rabbi of Venice, Binyamin Gil.
The activity is sponsored by the Foundation Beitenu Sefarad (Spain Federation of Jewish Communities) and Ben Israel Cultural Association and has the support of the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena.
Moshe Ben Maimon or Rambam also called Maimonides (1135-1204 Cordoba Fustat, Egypt) was a physician, Spanish rabbi and Jewish theologian of great importance in the medieval and contemporary philosophical thought.
His work is one of the basic pillars for Jewish thought and religion even today.
Among his most notable works are medical grade Health Guide, psychology as Hilchot Deot or psychosomatic medicine ahead of today's treatise Perakim Shmone.
In the field of Talmudic exegesis as Mishne Torra outstanding works among others.
These works were very famous and earned him numerous disciples.
He is also author of philosophical works of great weight in medieval thought, written during the last years of his life, as the Treaty on the resurrection of the dead.
The Guide for the Perplexed, badly dubbed the erring guide, is the key to his philosophical and exerted a strong influence on both Jewish and Christian circles and especially scholastics.
It provides a reconciliation between faith and reason directed to those who vacillate between the teachings of the Jewish religion and the doctrines of the then prevailing Aristotelian philosophy, showing that there is no contradiction in the points in which faith and reason seem opposed.
That is, a reconciliation between the literal meaning of the scriptures and rational truths, going to the allegorical interpretation in cases of conflict.
This course is a more in the work undertaken by the Foundation for the recovery and enhancement Judeo Sephardic Legacy in the Region of Murcia.
Cartagena Puerto served to open the Mediterranean commercial activities of the Jewish people and must retrieve an ancient culture as itself as Jewish undoubtedly contribute to a growing cultural, tourism and economic development.
Cartagena was the last sight for many Jews after the expulsion of 1492, and can and should be opening port for return to Sefarad.
Rabbi Binyamin Gil, born in Tel Aviv (Israel), has a long career rabbinical having practiced in many countries like the United States, Turkey, Milan, Madrid as a second chief rabbi and currently Chief Rabbi of Venecia.Son numerous courses in Latin America and China.
Location: Palacio de Molina in the C / JaraHora and date: February 19 at 20:00 horasPatrocinan: Foundation Beitenu Sefarad (Spain Federation of Jewish Communities) and Ben Israel.Colabora Cultural Association: Cartagena.Concejalía Excmo.Ayuntamiento of Culture .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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