Charles Touati

Large-rabbi, researcher and French professor born on February 1st, 1925 with Tlemcen, Algeria and deceased on March 13rd, 2003, Shabbat Zachor, in Paris.

Charles Touati , Doctor of Divinity, doctor of history of philosophy, arts doctor of State; and director of studies at the practical School of the high studies, section of religious sciences, takes part in the revival of the French rabbinate of second half of the 20th century. By its teaching with the Seminar Jew of France but also with the Practical School of the High Studies, like by its written work, Charles Touati provided contributions of first importance to the study of the Torah and philosophy, sciences crowned and profane sciences, in the Judaism talmudic and medieval. In particular, its contribution with the knowledge of Gersonide and the philosophers and halakhists provençaux was decisive.

It is made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1980 in Paris.

In 2001, its disciples and colleagues, in France and abroad, offer a tribute of articles to him which illustrate the topic, constitutive of the Judaism and its contradictions, of the relations between the Torah and the hokhmah, since the hellenistic time until our days. This mixture entitled Torah and science: historical and theoretical prospects. Mixtures offered to Charles Touati has as writers R. Brague, S. Feldman, P. Fenton, G. Freudenthal, R. Goetschel, A. Guetta, Mr. Hadas-Lebel, W.Z Harvey, Mr. Kellner, D. Lasker, J. - P. Rotschild, D. Schwartz and C. Sirat.

Bibliography

the philosophical and theological thought of Gersonide . appeared in 1973. The central matter of Gersonide is found here in all its clearness: to know the world requires, at the same time, the practice of the reasoning and recourse to the experiment. Three centuries before Rene Descartes, Gersonide provides the foundations of what was to become the methodological base of the modern scientific reflection.

Prophets, talmudists, philosophical . appeared into 1990 with the editions of the Stag. This book gathers a series of studies of great quality on the prophets, the rabbinical literature, the questions of Talmud and about philosophers such as Moïse Maïmonide, Averroès or Hasdaï Crescas. Thirty year old fruit of research, the work was crowned by the Academy of Science morals and political.

the Kuzari, Apology for the scorned religion . (introduction, annotation and translation of Arabic since the original text of Juda Halevi) appeared into 1994 with the Verdier editions. This great classic of the Jewish literature, that Juda Halevi completed at the end of its life, is a defense of the Judaïsme in the middle of a medieval Spain where Islam, Christianity and philosophy dispute the preponderance.

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