Rabbi Heschel Greenberg has launched a new series of classes on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah in response to the Rebbe’s call to learn at least one halacha in depth.
The Rebbe initiated a major effort to unite all Jews with the study of the entire encyclopedic work, Mishneh Torah, by learning three chapters a day and completing the entire work in less than a year. Alternatively, one can learn one chapter and complete the entire Mishneh Torah in close to three years. The Rebbe also gave a third option to study Maimonides’ companion work, Sefer Hamitzvos that parallel the Mishneh Torah.
In addition, the Rebbe requested that we learn one halacha in depth.
We recently began the 42nd cycle of Mishneh Torah which inspired Rabbi Greenberg to record brief classes on selected passages of the Mishneh Torah.
Rabbi Heschel Greenberg is a shliach of the Rebbe in Buffalo NY and the Director of the Jewish Discovery Center, and, for the past 50 years, has taught thousands of classes on all aspects of Jewish knowledge.
Rabbi Greenberg has also authored dozens of works on diverse subjects including several volumes of commentary on the Mishneh Torah.
Many of Rabbi Greenberg’s classes can be accessed on his website rabbigreenberg.com.
Explore Rambam’s fascinating ruling in Laws of Idolatry (3:9) that commissioning a forbidden act carries the same punishment as performing it yourself. This sparks debate among commentators like Lechem Mishneh and Minchat Chinuch: How can one be liable for another’s actions? Does speech leading to action count as action? What happens when agency principles conflict with “no agent for sin”? Through competing explanations, we uncover profound insights about accountability that extend beyond ancient prohibitions to our modern ethical decisions, revealing how Jewish legal wisdom provides sophisticated frameworks for understanding responsibility in a world where we frequently act through others.
