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49. B. Baba Batra 91a. 50. Hilkhot Melakhim 5:7.

51. Ibid. 5:8(emphasis added). As we have seen(supra 48), the Rambam permitted one to leave the Land of Israel to study Torah abroad, which was considered a temporary matter. It is unlikely that Maimonides could have found anyone in Israel who could have served as his mentor.

Ibid. 5:12. Kaftor va-Ferah(Jerusalem : 1994), Chap. 5, pp. 81-83.

Ibid.. p. 81. conjectures that this might have been R. Samuel ben R. Solomon ben R. David HaNagid. but gives no evidence for this identification.

55. Radbaz . Commentary to Mishneh Torah, Hil. Melakhim 5:7.

56. See Responsa Maharit(supra note 44). For an example of his continuing influence, see Rabbi Nahum Rabinowitz.“The Mitzvah of Settling the Land.” Gilyon Rabanei Yesha 28. Samaria . October 1995.

57. Nahmanides ® gloss to Sefer HaMitzvot(Jerusalem : 1957), positive precept 4, p.42. 58. Nahman ben Moshe, Commentary io the Torah . ed. by H.D. Chavel. Vol. 2 (Jerusalem : 1960), p. 355.

59. B. Ketubor 110b. See supra. note 45.

60. Tosefta Avodah Zarah, ed. by M.S. Zuckermandel(Jerusalem : 1963); Sifrei , ed. by L. Finkelstein(New York :1969), 80:29. This is the conclusion of the Ramban ’s gloss to Sefer HaMirzvot. See supra. no. 57.

61. Israel Ta-Shema.“Moses ben Nahman, ” Encyclopedia Hebraica(Jerusalem -Tel Aviv : 1972), Cols. 565-66: see Martin A. Cohen,«Reflections of the Text and Context of the Disputations of Barcelona. HUCA 35(1964), 157-92, which shows that both sides claimed

victory.

of Jews to the Land of Israel(Hebrew )(Ramat Gan : 1977),

62. Abraham Ya'ari, Journeys p. 77(my translation).

63. Ibid. Nahmanides ' verses have many allusions to biblical and rabbinic literature, with

which his reader must be acquainted to fully understand his poetry.

64. H.D. Chavel. The Writings of the Ramban (Jerusalem : 1963), Letters 7 to Nahman

and 8 to Sholomo. pp. 367-71.