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Based on the Thirteen Principles of Faith formulated by the Rambam in his Commentary on the Mishnah (tractate Sanhedrin 10:1). 1. I believe with complete faith that the Creator, blessed be His name, is the Creator and Guide of all the created beings, and ...

Had the Rambam written no other work but the Commentary on the Mishnah, it would have been sufficient to immortalize him among the Jewish people. But he had no sooner completed this work than he embarked on his next and even more ambitious project, the co...

Besides the aforementioned three major works of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, he also composed numerous Responses (Teshuvot) to the queries addressed to him for his opinion and authoritative decision, from all centers of Jewish settlement. With the appearance o...

Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon was not only the leading personality in Talmudic and Judaic law of his time, but also the chief exponent of Jewish religious philosophy. After concluding his magnum opus, the Mishneh Torah, Rambam set out to present the religious ph...

Rambam reached the peak of his professional reputation as a doctor when he was appointed to the staff of the court of Saladin as royal physician. He was charged with personally supervising the health of the Grand Vizier Alfadhel, as well as members of the...

1135 (1138) 14th of Nissan, birth of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, Rambam, in Cordova, Spain. 1148 The Almohades, a fanatic Muslim sect of Northern Africa, capture Cordova. The Maimon Family flees Cordova and enters an eleven year period of wandering through So...

At the same time, Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon acquired world renown as a Talmudist of unusual knowledge and acumen. Scholars and Rabbis from all over the world sent him their questions and queries in Judaic law (Halachah). At the comparatively young age of for...

Rambam was born on the fourteenth day of Nissan – the day before Passover – in the year 1135According to some historians, Rambam was born in 1133; according to others, in 1138., in Cordova, Spain. He was a descendent of a distinguished and scholarly famil...

This brief biography brings to light many little-known facts about Maimonides, twelfth-century philosopher and physician.