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Or Adonai
work by Crescas
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discussed in biography
- In Ḥasdai ben Abraham Crescas
…Maimonides, is contained in his Or Adonai (“The Light of the Lord”), completed in 1410. In the work, a commentary on various aspects of the Torah, he rejected traditional proofs for the existence of God, insisting that certainty in this matter rests only on the authority of the Bible in…
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significance to Judaism
- In Judaism: Ḥasdai Crescas
One of Crescas’s main works, Or Adonai (“The Light of the Lord”), was quite contrary to Gersonides in its attempt to expose the weaknesses of Aristotelian philosophy. This attitude may be placed in the wider context of the return to religion itself, as opposed to the Aristotelian rationalization of religion,…
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