The Rambam (Maimonides) / הרמב"ם

The Rambam (Maimonides), also, הרמב"ם. . The Rambam, "The Great Eagle", was among the greatest of Jewish sages of the Middle Ages and a symbol of Jewish wisdom. He was born in the year 4898 (1138) in Cordoba, Andalusia to the judge Rabbi Maimon and his wife. He was forced to wander with his family to escape the Almohad Muslim regime, going to Maghreb, Morocco, from there to the Land of Israel, and from there to Egypt. , The Rambam was a beacon of Torah, Jewish law and thought for his generation and those that followed. His book Mishnah Torah, on which he worked for a decade, is one of the most important books written on Jewish law. His letters were publicized around the entire Jewish world, and his book A Guide for the Perplexed is one of the most important compositions on Jewish philosophy., Throughout his life, the Rambam felt strongly that one should not earn his living through Torah. He refused to take any money for his Torah scholarship and he supported himself through medicine. He was the physician of the chief advisor to Sultan Saladin and his fame as a doctor spread throughout Egypt., The Rambam died in Egypt on the 20th of Tevet, 4965 (December, 1204)., (Hebrew text not transcribed)