Monthly Archives: February 2013

We’re going to provide a list of the contemporary commentators from whose works we’ll be culling, and the first is my later teacher, R’ Aryeh Kaplan z”l.

Most people interested in Derech Hashem are familiar with R’ Kaplan’s translation of it which was published by Feldheim Publishes in 1977. While he didn’t write a commentary to it per se, R’ Kaplan provided classical sources to many of Ramchal’s statements. He said there that he’d provide a more extensive listing of sources in the future,but he didn’t, sadly.

(c) 2013 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org

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AT LONG LAST! Rabbi Feldman’s translation of Maimonides’ “Eight Chapters” is available here at a discount.

You can still purchase a copy of Rabbi Feldman’s translation of “The Gates of Repentance” here at a discount as well.

Rabbi Yaakov Feldman has also translated and commented upon “The Path of the Just” and “The Duties of the Heart” (Jason Aronson Publishers).

Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes on www.torah.org entitled “Spiritual Excellence” and “Ramchal

This will be a setting out of the whole of דרך הי in readable terms with scholarly notes, though it will not offer a word for word translation.

The series will run concurrently on www.torah.org, but we’ll add comments and other remarks here from time to time.

The prologue can be found here, and the first part of Ramchal’s Introduction can be found here.

(I’d add a couple of other sources to note 2 in the Introduction: Ma’amar HaVivuach Bein Chokeir U’Mekubal [in Sha’arei Ramchal p. 76], and Derech Tevunah p. 183).

(c) 2013 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org

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AT LONG LAST! Rabbi Feldman’s translation of Maimonides’ “Eight Chapters” is available here at a discount.

You can still purchase a copy of Rabbi Feldman’s translation of “The Gates of Repentance” here at a discount as well.

Rabbi Yaakov Feldman has also translated and commented upon “The Path of the Just” and “The Duties of the Heart” (Jason Aronson Publishers).

Rabbi Feldman also offers two free e-mail classes on www.torah.org entitled “Spiritual Excellence” and “Ramchal”.