The Rambam Master Physician, Master Posek 06 14 2026

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

Okay, Morgan. Um, we're in the middle of of handling the suya of of doctors and doctoring and going to doctors and we keep mentioning that we have to talk about the Rambam. So, I think this is the week that we'll we'll talk about the Rambam. Now I'm gonna be mocked him that any attempt to to confine the Rambam and describe the Rambam and exactly paint the picture of the Rambam his godless is is is will be lacking inherently the Rambam is you know they come it's almost impossible to know they come it's almost impossible to be Magdar the Rambam's greatness the Rambam wrote uh the the ultimate trilogy in in the which is I'm saying uh still probably the most written on safer ever maybe paves is more but I'm saying from from probably the most written on safer the pishna theim which is granted for more of a narrow audience but in its time for hundreds of years was controversial and consequential and for in the space of of makshava and and in the space of of makshava and and philosophy and and you know that area the is the gold standard this is all not even including the Ramdam's various igris and that he wrote to different communities different times times and the Rambam um interestingly he wrote Pishna when he was a young man not on all of Mishnay but on large chunks of Mishnai he wrote it when he was about 30 years old and spent the rest of his life editing it I have a friend of mine big who showed me uh recently of the Ram Mishna which is like it's a page of

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1. 0:05Okay, Morgan. Um, we're in the middle of of handling the suya of of doctors and…
2. 3:14Jews uh you know didn't didn't respect the Ram properly and Muvim the battles of Muhamm…
3. 6:48letters writes about his ais about his brother David and ultimately the Rambam is forced to…
4. 10:20and his monopoly on the business of medicine and the way he made money from it…
5. 13:20coarse rough food of a workman of a blueco collar worker, which what he was, it…
6. 16:58inserts an entire chapter in peralid of medical medical int. And he starts off like this…
7. 20:32Since the Ram doesn't bring this which comes from the I'm sorry the Rambam who was…
8. 23:34one of them is much bigger than his friend meaning the father is much bigger than…
9. 27:08simalid in the divided that's how he wrote like a longer period and a shorter period…
10. 30:51said is a very controversial thing and I I want to I'm just throwing it at…

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