Moses Ben Maimon
1135-1204
Spanish Philosopher and Physician
Moses ben Maimon, also known as Maimonides (or by the acronym RaM-BaM), had a tremendous impact on Judaism and philosophy, as well as medic...
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Maimonides(1135–1204)
Maimonides was the most celebrated Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages. "Maimonides" is the Latinized cognomen of Moses son of Maimon. Also called RaMBaM, ...
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Maimonides [addendum]
Since Shlomo Pines's entry, scholars have come to accept 1138, not 1135, as the year of Maimonides' birth. Some scholars also believe that the youthful treatise on ...
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Maimonides (1135-1204), or Moses ben Maimon, was the greatest Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages. His commentaries on, and codification of, the rabbinic tradition established him as a major religio...
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The controversies generated by his major philosophical work, Dalalat al-Ha'irin (Guide of the Perplexed, 1190), from the time of its appearance in the late twelfth century to the present, attest to th...
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The family of man who held a fragment of a more than 1,000-year-old manuscript of the Hebrew Bible for six decades as a good luck charm will present it to a Jerusalem institute next week, officials...
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A young doctor who admitted to severing a hand from a cadaver as a medical student, then giving it to a stripper, was sentenced Thursday to 15 months of probation.Ahmed Rashed, 27, pleaded guilty l...
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More than 1,500 toddlers and babies wound up in emergency rooms over a two-year period and three died because of bad reactions to cold or cough medicine, federal health officials reported Thursday....
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A young doctor who admitted to severing a hand from a cadaver as a medical student, then giving it to a stripper, was sentenced Thursday to 15 months of probation.Ahmed Rashed, 27, pleaded guilty l...
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A team of French doctors planned to slice a cyst off a man's arm Wednesday in the world's first zero-gravity surgery, operating aboard an airplane soaring and diving in and out of weightl...
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Saturday
9:30 a.m. Interfaith volunteers and Habitat for Humanity-NYC will build affordable homes at 26 Sherlock Place in Brooklyn.
10 a.m. Speaker Christine Quinn will headline the West Side te...
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A mission of mercy at a hospital turned costly for a priest who violated the 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not park illegally. The Rev. Cletus Forson, of St. Andrew the Apostle Church in the Ba...
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ABC "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts discovered she had breast cancer after following her own advice about early detection in a story about former colleague Joel Siegel's cancer death.Ro...
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Moses Ben Maimon
Maimonides (1135–1204)
Maimonides
Moses Maimonides
Institute to get ancient bible parchment
