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Torat HaAdam
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Introduction
The Gate of Malady
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The Matter of Danger
The Gate of Mortality
The Matter of ConfessionThe Matter of HealingThe Matter of DepartureThe Matter of RendingOne Whose Dead Lies Before HimThe Matter of EulogizingThe Matter of RemovalThe Matter of BurialThe Matter of Kohanim
The Gate of Mourning
The Matter of Mourning RelativesThe Matter of Beginning of MourningThe Matter of MourningThe Matter of Shabbat and FestivalsThe Matter of Report and Gathering of BonesThe Matter of Old Mourning
The Gate of Recompense

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Author: Moses ben Nachman (Ramban)
Torat HaAdam is Ramban’s 13th-century work on the laws surrounding the end of life, including the treatment of a dying person on Shabbat, confession, burial, and mourning. The book was considered an essential source of authority, quoted often by medieval scholars and incorporated by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher and Rabbi Joseph Karo into their monumental codes, Arba’ah Turim and Shulchan Arukh, respectively. The title Torat HaAdam (likely a reference to II Samuel 7:19) is absent from the work’s manuscripts but appears on the title page of the first printed edition. Other medieval scholars also refer to the work by this title. The book includes a section entitled Sha’ar HaGemul, on reward and punishment, theodicy, heaven and hell, and the afterlife.

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