Maimonides

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Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam, was a Sephardic Jewish rabbi who is widely acknowledged as one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.

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Notable works: Mishneh Torah (Codification of Talmudic laws)

About Maimonides

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Maimonides · Page 7

All forces that reside in the body are angels.

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Angel

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We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one…

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Compassionate

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It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion…

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Circumcision

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The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes…

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Book

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There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

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Charity

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It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a…

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Achieve

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