Maimonides

[ mahy-mon-i-deez ]

/ maɪˈmɒn ɪˌdiz /

noun

Moses ben MaimonRaMBaM,1135–1204, Jewish scholastic philosopher and rabbi, born in Spain: one of the major theologians of Judaism.

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Mai·mon·i·de·an, adjective, noun

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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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Most well-known among them was the Maimonides Synagogue, which was flooded after the 1992 earthquake and reopened in 2010.

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And it is not his writings on Maimonides that the hip religious youth are reading.

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They owned books by an English scholar, Henry Ainsworth, who used the Jewish philosopher Maimonides to show that this was so.

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Here also appears clearly the anti-intellectualism of Crescas and his disagreement with Maimonides and Gersonides.

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To be sure, Spinoza's philosophy is somewhat better known than that of Maimonides.

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Maimonides fled from Spain to Cairo, in Egypt, from fanaticism and persecution.

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It reads in Maimonides as follows: We see constantly things existing potentially and coming into actuality.

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At Tiberias also are the tombs of distinguished Jewish teachers, including Maimonides.

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Maimonides

/ (maɪˈmɒnɪˌdiːz) /

noun

also called Rabbi Moses ben Maimon. 1135–1204, Jewish philosopher, physician, and jurist, born in Spain. He codified Jewish law in Mishneh Torah (1180)

Derived forms of Maimonides

Maimonidean, adjective, noun

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