Moses Maimonides was a famous philosopher and physician who was heavily influenced by many varieties of sciences, mathematics and classical philosophy, mainly the works of Aristotle. These influences allowed him, not only to provide rational but meaningful Jewish texts and teachings that have been impacting the Jewish community for years, but ... the modern, meaningful and relevant religion that it is today. Maimonides was a Sephardic Jew born in Cordoba, Spain in 1136. He was well educated in Jewish religion, secularist sciences and philosophy, most of which were taught to him by his father...

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