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Simeon Cohen
Jewish Philosophical Texts
Dr. Alan Mittleman
Rabbi Geoffrey Claussen

Maimonidean Rationalism

Maimonides (1135-1204), a Medieval Spanish Rabbi who practiced primarily in Cairo, is one of history’s most influential Jewish intellectuals; not only is he revered as a renowned philosopher, but he left a prolific legacy as both a halakhic codifier and as a physician. Maimonides’ philosophical magnum-opus, and possibly the seminal work of medieval Jewish philosophy, is his somewhat paradoxically perplexing Guide to the Perplexed. Maimonides dedicates the Guide to his pupil, Rabbi Joseph, a young, intellectually curious Jew from Alexandria, who ventured to Cairo to study under the already legendary Maimonides, yet was forced to leave in the midst of his studies in order to tend to his sick father. Before Rabbi Joseph returned to Alexandria, Maimonides introduced his promising young apprentice to the Greek philosophical system; unfortunately, due to the fact that......

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