Mishneh Torah (Code of Maimonides). Book. Sacrifices

Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides, 1138–1204) is the greatest Jewish sage of the post-Talmudic era: a legislator, philosopher, scholar, and physician. His code Mishneh Torah (“Repetition of the Teaching”) is one of the most important works of Jewish tradition. In the most extensive of his works, Maimonides summarizes and systematizes the Talmudic tradition and presents the entirety of Jewish religious law – halakhah – in an accessible form. The ninth book of Mishneh Torah, “Sacrifices,” includes the “Laws of the Passover Sacrifice,” “Laws of Celebration,” “Laws of Firstborns,” “Laws of Errors,” “Laws of Those Needing Redemption,” and “Laws of Substitution.” It is published in Russian for the first time in full, in an accurate modern translation with detailed comments.