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Sefer Hamitzvot (disambiguation) . Sefer Hamitzvot ("Book of Commandments", Hebrew : ספר המצוות ; Judeo-Arabic : כתאב אלפראיץׄ ) is a work by the 12th-century rabbi , philosopher , and physician , Moses Maimonides . While there are various other works titled similarly, the title " Sefer Hamitzvot " without a modifier refers to Maimonides' work. It is a listing of all the commandments of the Torah , with a brief description for each. It originally appeared in Judaeo-Arabic under the title "Kitab al-Farai'd", and was translated into Hebrew by the Provençal rabbi Moses ibn Tibbon (first printed 1497) as well as by ibn Hasdai , in the 13th century. A new Hebrew translation from the original Judaeo-Arabic was made by the noted Yemenite scholar, Rabbi Yosef Qafih .
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Sefer Hamitzvot ("Book of Commandments") is a work by the 12th century rabbi , philosopher and physician Maimonides . While there are various other works titled similarly, the title "Sefer Hamitzvot" without a modifier refers to Maimonides' work. It is a listing of all the commandments of the Torah , with a brief description for each. It originally appeared in Arabic under the title "Kitab al-Farai'd", and was translated by the Provençal rabbi Moses ibn Tibbon (first printed 1497). A new translation from the original Arabic was done by the Yemenite scholar Rabbi Yosef Qafih .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Sefer Hamitzvot ("Book of Commandments") is a work by the 12th century rabbi , philosopher and physician Maimonides . While there are various other works titled similarly, the title "Sefer Hamitzvot" without a modifier refers to Maimonides' work. It is a listing of all the commandments of the Torah , with a brief description for each. It originally appeared in Arabic under the title "Kitab al-Farai'd", and was translated by the Provençal rabbi Moses ibn Tibbon (first printed 1497). A new translation from the original Arabic was done by the noted Yemenite scholar Rabbi Yosef Kapach .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Sefer Hamitzvot ("Book of Commandments", Hebrew : ספר המצוות ) is a work by the 12th century rabbi , philosopher and physician Maimonides . While there are various other works titled similarly, the title "Sefer Hamitzvot" without a modifier refers to Maimonides' work. It is a listing of all the commandments of the Torah , with a brief description for each. It originally appeared in Arabic under the title "Kitab al-Farai'd", and was translated by the Provençal rabbi Moses ibn Tibbon (first printed 1497) as well as by ibn Hasdai , in the 13th century.A new Hebrew translation from the original Arabic was made by the noted Yemenite scholar, Rabbi Yosef Qafih .
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work by the 12th century rabbi
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work listing all the commandments of the torah
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