The Real Life of the Rambam | Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz | February 24th 2026

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No, it is uh it is amazing. You know the old saying, it's a French uh proverb. I don't know the French, but the more things change, the more they remain the same. Uh next week, we will be celebrating um our defeat of an enemy that emerged from Persia. And uh right now we're confronting the threat from Iran. And we hope that uh porum will occur once again in in one way or the other. and we should be in Nissel. Somehow Persia should be in Nissel. Somehow Persia always seems to reemerge no matter what the galot is. So they're always around and hashem they too will be will be defeated. Um hope everybody is well and uh you just heard a wonderful shiran for him. So I'm not going to repeat it. So I'm just going to go back to our letter and uh this is a very interesting letter. Uh this is the letter that the Rambam writes to Rav Iben Tibon. Just to remind you, we talked about it this end of last class. Um, the Ibon Iben Tibbon of last class. Um, the Ibon Iben Tibbon family, this is an Arabic name, Iben Tibbon, uh, were the most famous translators of Jewish Arabic into Lashan Hakodesh. And this was extremely important because although Arabic was the language of the Islamic world, it was not the language of the European world. So the Jews who lived in Germany, Poland, uh, Russia, Lithuania, whatever it would be, they would not have had access to these

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3. 11:57Ibenton not only translated the Ramb Praim but he wrote a very brilliant philosophical introduction. So…
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