Rambam Bekius

The Final Word on Silence (Hilchos Deios 2:4-6)

May 20, 2021 Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss
Rambam Bekius
The Final Word on Silence (Hilchos Deios 2:4-6)
Show Notes

This afternoon (5/21/21 at YBT) we resumed our Rambam Bekius chavurah after a week's hiatus. We focused on the last two paragraphs in the Rambam about the deah of silence, and arrived at some nice ideas. (FYI, the title of this shiur is a joke based on something we said in the shiur itself.) We started working on 2:6, about geneivas daas (trickery), pitui (seduction), and echad ba'peh v'echad ba'lev (lack of integrity), but we'll have to revisit that topic next time.
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר המדע, הלכות דעות ב:ד-ו
Epictetus, Discourses 4.1.128b-129a
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Rambam Resources:
- Mechon Mamre: the most accurate complete edition of the Mishneh Torah available online for free
- AlHaTorah: excellent site overall, and reliable for the first three books of the Mishneh Torah, as well as the Shelat edition of the Rambam's commentary on the Mishnah and other works of the Rambam
- Daat: features many of the Rambam's writings, including Qafih's translation of the Moreh ha'Nevuchim, complete with footnotes
- Explanatory Essays on The Guide for the Perplexed
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