| The great twelfth century rabbi Maimonides ranked eight types of giving in order of virtue. |
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| Maimonides compares this to the intense yearnings that a man feels for a woman. |
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| He then embarked on intensive study, first of the philosophy of Maimonides, then of the esoteric Kabbala, which was rather more to his taste. |
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| For theologians like Aquinas and Maimonides and many others past and present, the very essence of God is his incommunicability. |
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| More than five different editions of various works of Maimonides are displayed, including two incunables. |
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| Needing help to do some things, he moved into Maimonides accredited home with seven people. |
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| And it is not his writings on Maimonides that the hip religious youth are reading. |
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| The legal compendia of Jacob b. Asher and Maimonides were the most popular post-talmudic and non-liturgical Hebrew books of the 15th century. |
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| After his expulsion from Andalusia, Maimonides was welcomed by Arabs in Morocco and Egypt. |
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| Written in North Africa at the end of the geonic period, the compendium of Alfasi was the most important code prior to that of Maimonides. |
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| She had enrolled at Maimonides University in North Miami Beach in order to work towards a degree in clinical sexology. |
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| Among the other haroset varieties will be a 17th-century French version that is believed to be similar to the recipe Maimonides suggested. |
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| In his role as a religious philosopher, Maimonides looks at the unfolding of history from a religious point of view. |
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| Of course, even a great soul like Maimonides could not always abstract from particular events. |
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| She contributed significantly to improving the quality of life of the Maimonides Centre patients, by using her special skills as a PDSB Instructor and by her interpersonal approach in nursing care. |
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| Home to Seneca, Averroës and Maimonides, the city, jewel of Andalusia, prospered on the banks of the Guadalquivir, where two very different natural regions, one arid, the other less so, and at least three cultures meet. |
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| According to Maimonides, any Jew who rejects even one of these principles would be considered an apostate and a heretic. |
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| Rabbi Abraham David agrees with Maimonides in denying a physical form to God, but he affirms the right of the individual to maintain backward ideas in Judaism without being read out of the fold on that account. |
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| Truth to Maimonides is not just a cognitive experience, but rather the ability to hear and respond to that which is other than myself in terms of its own intrinsic worth. |
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| Uncompromisingly rationalistic as he was, Maimonides declared that to ascribe any physical form to God was tantamount to heresy and deprived one of a share in the world to come. |
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| Spinoza derides those who reinterpret scripture in order to see a rational message in it as Moses Maimonides did as well as those who accept its unreasonableness on faith. |
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| Maimonides compares a fetus threatening its mother's life to a pursuer and justifies therapeutic abortion prior to birth on that basis. |
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| In A SENSE, Maimonides identifies his opinions on divine providence with Epicureanism. |
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| Like many of the later Maimonideans, Delmedigo thought that Maimonides himself had erred in publicly supporting and promoting attempts to popularize reconciliations between Aristotelian thought and popular Judaism. |
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| Among the manifold interpretations of the mysterious ladder, Maimonides shows us that knowledge begins from the sensory world, thence climbs towards the world of saints and higher beings. |
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| Analogy is advanced as a solution, but though analogy is not the homonymy of Maimonides this homonymy is nevertheless a radical condition of its very authenticity. |
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| Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a work that serves as a prolegomenon to the Mishneh Torah. |
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| Maimonides criticizes this account in two ways. |
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| Some important philosophers at the time were Averroes, Ibn Arabi and Maimonides. |
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| This order is only tendentious, for a philosopher like Maimonides was also a doctor, and a physicist like Einstein was, in his own way, a philosopher. |
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| For 23 years prior to that, he headed the Division of Neurology at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY where he continues to serve as co-director of the MS Care Center. |
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| In other words, Maimonides rejected an autonomous acceptance of these laws in favor of a heteronymous acceptance of God's revealed laws. |
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| Yet the 13 Fundamentals expounded by Maimonides in his Commentary on the Mishnah, authored in the 1160s, eventually proved the most widely accepted. |
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| About 800 years ago the acclaimed physician and rabbi Moses Maimonides spelled out what seems to me a pretty good answer in the form of a hierarchy of charitable expression. |
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| He agrees with David Blumenthal that, despite the veneration of Maimonides in the Yemen, Maimonidean neoaristotelian tradition was prominent alongside neoplatonic tradition. |
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| Maimonides reserved one article for this tenet, oft mentioned in traditional sources, stating merely that God rewards and punishes without specification. |
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