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Moses Maimonides, known among Jews as The Rambam, lived from 1135 to 1204. He was born in Cordoba, Spain, and later lived in Faiyum, near Cairo, where he served as official physician to the reigning Sultan. Maimonides is universally recognized as among the greatest minds who ever lived. He wrote ten treatises on medicine. For his own people, he wrote a commentary on the entire Mishna (Oral Torah); a vast compendium of Halakha (Jewish law) which he named Mishneh Torah; and the Guide for the Perplexed, in which he explains various aspects of Torah-outlook and compares them with Aristotelianism.

The Rambam's influence is still strongly felt in the religious Jewish world. Though many avoided his Guide (as they saw no need to familiarize themselves with Aristotle), the Mishneh Torah has become one of the chief underpinnings of Jewish law since its writing; and there are many hundreds of published commentaries on it.

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