This article provides an overview of the life of Moses Maimonides, regarded by many as the greatest Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages. Moses Maimonides is regarded by many as the greatest Jewish ...

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NEW YORK — In 1784, three years after the American Revolution, New York City cantor Hendla Jochanan van Oettingen composed a prayer for the well-being of Gen. George Washington and Gov. DeWitt Clinton ...

*Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 320 pages, $49.50. * Moses Maimonides (Rambam, in traditional parlance) has been widely lionized as the greatest mind in Jewish history. Even before his death ...

'From Moses to Moses, there has been none like Moses" runs the epitaph on the tomb of Moses Maimonides, comparing the medieval Jewish philosopher with his Biblical namesake—in the philosopher's favor.

Moses Mendelssohn, arguably the founding figure of modern Jewish philosophy, famously quipped that it was the hours of his youth spent studying the philosophical work of another Moses—Moses Maimonides ...

The medieval philosopher-physician has left a ‘practical legacy’ on modern medical practice. Doctors around the world hold in high regard the writings and manner of care of medieval ...

Time has a way of turning radicals into authorities. Thomas Aquinas was provocative during his lifetime because he sought to ground Christian theology in Aristotelian philosophy. Marx was exiled, ...

About 800 years before the Pew study, Moses Maimonides received a worried letter from the leader of the Jewish community of Yemen asking him how to combat the specter of assimilation. Yemenite Jews ...

Maimonides: One of the greatest Halakhic jurists of all time, and one of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages; a scientist, physician, and leader of Egyptian Jewry; recognized as one of ...

Q. What would Moses think about Jewish life today? A. It depends on which Moses. That’s not meant to be a joke or a cop-out. If you are talking about Moses the administrator, he would probably be ...

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