The volume, which combines two books experts believe were printed in Rome around 1473, to be auctioned Tuesday by Jerusalem-based Kedem The post First printed edition of Maimonides’ ‘Guide for the ...
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 Conversation) — I teach a philosophy of religion seminar titled “Faith and Reason.” Most students who register arrive with a mistaken assumption: that the course explores the differences between ...
When Maimonides’s “Guide of the Perplexed” appeared in southern France during the early 1300s, translated from Arabic into Hebrew, many in the Jewish community were outraged. This philosophical ...
Carved on the worn remnant of a wooden panel at the exhibition “The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries,” at Yeshiva University Museum in the Center for Jewish History, can be read a ...
The Spanish government today issued a decree for the organization of an official celebration on the anniversary of the birth of Rabbi Moses Maimonides (the Rambam), whose eight hundredth anniversary ...
Beautiful is the “Prayer of Maimonides,” 12th Century Jewish physician-philosopher-teacher: “0 God, Thou hast formed the body of man with infinite goodness; thou hast united in him innumerable forces ...
A move is going on in Congress to urge the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp in 1985 to mark the 850th anniversary of the birth of the Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides. It was initiated by Reps.