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Mishneh Torah

The Mishneh Torah is Maimonides's own twelfth-century primary legal code, composed over a period of years with no single publication date this record can honestly assign, a gap it states rather than guesses at. As a primary text it is authoritative for what Maimonides himself codified as Jewish law on a given topic, not for whether every later Jewish legal authority accepted his specific ruling, since the Mishneh Torah was and remains genuinely contested on particular points within later rabbinic literature. Use it to establish what this specific code states on a named topic; a claim about the code's reception or about a competing later ruling needs a source addressing that specific dispute directly.

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Maimonides's own twelfth-century primary legal code, composed over a period of years with no single publication date this record can honestly assign; authoritative for what Maimonides himself codified, not for whether every later Jewish authority accepted a given ruling.

Notes

Completed in the twelfth century over a period of years; no single publication year applies.

Citation

Author

Moses Maimonides

URL

https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Halakhah/Mishneh%20Torah

Source Type

primary-text

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Maimonides

This source names Maimonides directly: "The Mishneh Torah is Maimonides's own twelfth-century primary legal code, composed over a period of years with no single publication date this record can honestly assign, a gap it states rather than..."

Source Mishneh TorahMoses Maimonides

Claims Backed By This Source (152 claims)

This source backs 152 claims across the atlas. As facts: 81 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 27 holds. Plus 42 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

Angelic Choirs, 38 claims: 18 well-attested, 11 holds, 9 general references.
Doctrines, 32 claims: 22 well-attested, 1 holds, 9 general references.
Beliefs & Restrictions, 19 claims: 11 well-attested, 8 general references.
Rituals, 18 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 2 holds, 6 general references.
Articles, 15 claims: 15 well-attested.
Denominations, 10 claims: 6 holds, 4 general references.
Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
Other Writings, 6 claims: 5 holds, 1 general references.
Figures, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
Hymns & Liturgical Texts, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
Sacred Objects & Ritual Items, 2 claims: 2 general references.
Deities, 1 claims: 1 general references.