The 12th-century sage regularly described as the greatest Jewish thinker of all time leads a double life for posterity. In Jewish tradition, which often refers to great sages by acronyms, he is known as the Rambam, short for Rabbi Moshe ben (“son of”) Maimon. To this day, students in yeshivas turn to the Rambam’s magnum opus, the comprehensive legal code known as the Mishneh Torah, in navigating the complexities of Jewish law.
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Students who encounter him in a university course on medieval philosophy, on the other hand, get to know him as Moses Maimonides, the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew name. In this context, the book that matters is the “Guide for the Perplexed,” the philosophical treatise Maimonides wrote in Arabic around the year 1190. The “Guide,” too, speaks the language of Judaism, but the questions it addresses aren’t practical and legal, as in the Mishneh Torah, but speculative and metaphysical.
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