Originally published in the Jewish Law Annual 4 (1981), pp. 294-5. S. Frankel, ed., Mishneh Torah, vol. 2 Zemanim, New York: Congregation Bnei Yosef, 1975; vol. 3 Nashim, Bnei Brak: Yeshivat Ohel Yosef, 1977.—These are the first two volumes of a splendid new critical edition of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, prepared by a team of scholars in…