One of the new documents in the exhibit is a receipt written by Maimonides for funds raised to free ransomed Jewish captives taken after the Crusader assault on Bilbeis, Egypt. Yeshiva University ...

Too many people, including rabbis and scholars, focus on just two of Maimonides’ books to help them decide Maimonides’ frame of mind: his philosophical Guide of the Perplexed and his code of law which ...

Maimonides’ Guide is not an easy book to read, but it can be unraveled. In the introduction to the Guide, Maimonides alerts his readers that (1) he will not disclose his thoughts in their entirety; (2 ...

Moses ben Maimon, also known as Rambam, and commonly called Maimonides, was the ultimate Jewish polymath. He was the court physician to the sultan Saladin, and author of the Mishnah Torah and The ...

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To call someone “the greatest” in any field is to invite argument. Human achievement and its evaluation are an uncertain business and make such triumphalism suspect. Yet, there is one man who is ...

Images in the book include a responsum in Maimonides’s own hand, signed “Moshe” by him. It is one of many such documents discovered in the Cairo 'geniza,' a storage of Hebrew and Aramaic documents.