Statement

Some individuals directly challenged the rabbis' authority by taking their case to a Muslim judge. In Maimonides's time a Jewish man who was a kohen, barred by Jewish law from marrying a divorced woman, contracted the marriage before a Muslim judge. When community leaders wanted to cut the poetic insertions in the liturgy, their adversaries readily brought in the Muslim authorities; and opponents of reforms by Moses's son Abraham Maimonides in the Cairo synagogue (a new seating plan, no cushions, a revised liturgy) denounced the plan to the sultan.

References

1. p. 178

   supports · main text · ch. 6

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

   Verification anchor recorded · checked against the page text

2. p. 178

   supports · main text · ch. 6

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

   Verification anchor recorded · checked against the page text

3. p. 178

   supports · main text · ch. 6

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

   Verification anchor recorded · checked against the page text