The Rambam—His Life, Works, and Enduring Influence

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

so story I heard from a Luca who had a Hebrew school she did a unit and Rambam she figured this is something that every Jewish boy and girl should know so she did a whole unit on the life of the Rambam and the accomplishments of the Rambam and she got these kids their Hebrew school kids not from such observant homes and she got them very very excited about Rambam so one of the very excited about Rambam so one of the mothers came at pickup time and this eight-year-old girl comes running toward her mother and with great excitement she says mommy mommy we learned about the greatest wisest most special rabbi and the mothers just listening and the girl says Rambam and the mother hasn't heard these words so she kind of smiles but doesn't even know what the you know what doesn't even know what the you know what did those sound was Rambam me so the shloka looks to the mother and says Maimonides the little eight-year-old girl says Maura he's not just your mana tease he's all of our monasteries so she understood Rambam is all of our mana DS whatever Amana DS is at any rate no bay no Mesa Ben Maimon Haas VAR d what makes him such a unique figure in what makes him such a unique figure in Jewish history what makes his contribution something that affects Jewish life to this day what's the specialty of that album why does it say on his might save on his tombstone in Terraria Malaysia admission alaikum Kamisha that from Mercia meaning Moses the lawgiver until Mercia meaning the Rambam there was no other like my said there was no he was peerless

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