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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 1 - The 248 Positive Commandments of the Tora
209 - HONORING SCHOLARS AND THE AGED
Maimonides recognizes no religious bias or prejudice as ground for invalidating the facts and conclusions established by patient research throughout the ages. Thus, referring to a scientific discovery of certain natural phenomena, he writes: “Inasmuch as all these findings are based upon clear proof, in which there is no flaw, and which no one can question, we do not pay any attention to their source – whether they were the work of Hebrew prophets or of foreign nations. For wherever we are confronted with a finding for which a reason has been brought forward, and whose truth has been established by proofs in which there is no flaw, we rely upon the statement or teaching of whatsoever person it be that produced it; that is, we rely solely on the strength of the proof which has been brought forward or of the reason which has been established.”*