"Message to Teyman" intended to Yemen from Cairo in 1172, was intended to provide spiritual support to Jews in this country and was a response to a letter from the head of the community Rabbi Yaakov Alfayumi. The Jews of Yemen was going through at that time a deep crisis, which had three main reasons: the cruel persecution of the Jewish faith, a departure from the strict part of the community are working on the Torah and the appearance of a false prophet, whose preaching the imminent coming of the Messiah some disoriented, bringing in their hearts doubt and confusion.
"Message to Teyman" written to "strengthen the hands Exhausted and confirm the feeble knees", reveals the inner meaning of our exile and the universe is in the hearts of Jews hope for deliverance.
This is a letter written almost 1000 years ago, in 1000 after the destruction of the Second Temple, was the guiding light and the "gates of hope," not only for the Jews of Yemen in the old days, but for subsequent generations of our people. It is still relevant in our time - for us. In it we find the interpretation of sacred history-strait separating light on many problems, the correct understanding of which is so necessary to us today.
These problems include the essence of religions such as Christianity and Islam, which, taking its roots in Judaism, aspire to it "assimilate" and replace it in order to annul the Torah, the Jewish-ical faith, the Jewish people and its right to the Holy land, ר"ל
In the "Message to Teyman" revealed the source of eternal hatred of other people for our people. It is rooted in jealousy, envy in their reinvigorated, with nyavshim-over and carrying the burden of the Torah. Comparing our faith with other religions, the Rambam says that she is different from them as a living, feeling, and from clicks on what is happening in the universe man differs from man-made, man-made sculptures.
We also find here the judgment of the Rambam in relarge times of Moshiach, a ', calculated the end, "and, in particular, we see that he rejects astrology and its predictions.
The extraordinary wealth of content on your "message" is not exhausted. This wealth of thought, deriving from the source of all truth - the Torah was given to us at Sinai.
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This little book - the first translation of a work on the Rambam Russian language. "Message in a Teyman" was written in Arabic. We used a translation into Hebrew, published for the first time in Basel in 1629, belongs to Nahum Maaravi; put it comparable with the translation of a contemporary of Ibn Rambam Tivo-on. Minor in terms of fragments of "messages" contained in the retelling, set in italics.
When working on the translation I used the publication of the "Epistle", published in Jerusalem in 1976, ed-tion "and the Mossad - Rav Kook," edited by p. Mîrdehaya Dov Rabinovich.
I express my deep gratitude to the initiator transfer Rav Yitzchak Zilber and his son Ben Tzion Zilber for work read the translation of the manuscript and valuable comments.
Nathan Feingold
Jerusalem, 24 Sivan 5744
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