The Rambam (1135 - 1204) - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

[Music] meiyan is role of Brooklyn and Vera you good evening Thank You rabbi Vig ler broker my boy and welcome everybody so how does a person in one hour cover the story of a human being and who's much saver in Terraria the following words have been enshrined mimosa admire like calm Kamisha meaning from moysha from the first moisha till moisha bay no moisture Ben Maimon the Rambam like calm Kamisha there arose nobody like moisha spanning the generations from moysha remainder to remain on my ship and my man in the 12th century but what we can hope for is to whet our appetite with at least a few points about the life accomplishments the personality the work the writings the volumes of the Rambam and its impact to motivate us to get to know their album a little better through his writings through his swaram through his letters through his life story there was true of us through his a losses it's almost unheard of in the times of your in ancient history that a birthday should be recorded never mind not only a birthday but the hour of birth even yard sites that yard said should be recorded is a rarity but a birthday today today we know birthdays but in the days of the Rambam before that and even afterwards we don't know anybody's birthday we know that perry had a birthday and a lot of interesting things happened he had a birthday party he be yelling won't let this as pirate we also don't know which date it is actually the Gemara says Rosh Hashanah mr. Shawn and sorry sir Shawn is the birthday mr. Shawn is a day that yusuf came out of prison but Joseph came out of prison as a result of pireas birthday a few years earlier when the Sarah Markham was brought back to his post the Rambam is an exception his birthday has been recorded Erev Pesach of the year tough tough Sadiq hey Dollard I love him tough tough sound okay which would be 4895 since creation for eight nine five since creation or in the english calendar 11:35 11:35 Erev Pesach approximately 1:20 p.m. perhaps just perhaps this incidental detail about the Rambam is extremely reflective of their albums work that for him every detail was significant and particulars were as important as general themes because of him being a holistic person work Lao and prot general ideas but also specific details merged together to give one a full picture of whatever subject he was dealing with the Rambam was born inspired in Spain the ultimates Vardy as he often defines himself a Nimoy's Shaban my mine has far D in the City of Cordova in Spain but when he was a young boy of 13 Bar Mitzvah vaulter she was born 1135 approximately the year 1147 he and his family his father robbed a new mine mine who was a great dying a judge a leader a scholar in Cordova were forced to escape Spain and the story is important to know to appreciate many aspects of their albums life the roms pay the Rambam sensitivity which he often refers to a few decades later li ER a new group rose up among the Muslims countries Europe and Africa was divided between the Christians and the Muslims Islam was founded in the 600's in the seventh century by Muhammad and a few decades before this story before the roms birth a new group a new movement within Islam developed and this is extremely important because if you want to know what's happening in Islam today you have to know what happened in Islam at the times of the romba the division you often read about between the Shiites and the Sunnis originates in the time of the Rambam namely a new group emerged in Africa Fez the area of Morocco and the group came to be defined as almohads almohads is a combination of two words Allah Kim Akkad al Mahad Almohad an Arabic one God the notion of this group was founded by a great Islamic passionate scholar who felt that contemporary Islam of the 12th century became corrupt its leaders its chiefs its teachers that Sultan's are entrenched in materialism Muslim leaders then as often today would leave a very would lead a very luxurious life in terms of food prosperity furniture women style of living and he said this is not this is not religion another issue he had was Islam was very developed relatively speaking comparison to Christianity Islam produced great scholars great philosophers great poets great astronomer great physicians and a great culture architecture arts the Rambam was a was an extraordinary student of all of these scholars and many of them came to almost worship the scholarship of their Amba they were enthralled by the Rambam about that a little bit later but this this this scholar decided that meant Islam then believed like many believed that God has similarities with physical realities they attributed physical dimensions to Hashem and they're a saga of you know even when they Rambam and he'll his true ver when he describes the definition of a mini heretic somebody who attributes physical properties to Hashem and arrived at Rubino Avram band of it and as I saga says Doyle in Batavia Meno gray Jews attributed physical properties to God this Muslim scholar said that this is corrupt and therefore he explained God in much more abstract terms in terms of oneness and spiritual abstractions hence the name Alma HOD detachment from materialism but this man also had a vision muhammad came to him in his so-called vision and told him that by medve in memoriam that the quran says that you can tolerate jews and other religions as dejected people a second-class citizens that's for the first 500 years of islam but now after 500 years of islam now there's a choice either conversion to islam or death and of course as in every vision of prophets quote-unquote the 500 years ended right now in my days he became a zealous freak the Shiites versus the Sunnis which we switch is today one of the most important distinctions in the Islamic world begins with him this group developed into the shiites which rejected the Sunnis who accepted what you would call the terrible pair the oral tradition of Islam which modified some of the strict laws the Shiites under his leadership the AL mods rejected at all and therefore the levels of spiritual worship were very intense but equal to zealousness and fundamentalism and extremism that ultimately produced barbaric cruelty for infidels that weren't ready to accept the philosophy of the almohads and thus they went from community to community and gave Jews and other religions the choice either they convert or they die some places they allowed them to leave as well they could be expelled leaving everything behind this was a major crisis a major story that unfolds in the days of the Rambam that he would be forced to address time and time again throughout his life in which we come to learn a lot about the person his views and his perspectives when the Rambam is 13 the almohads arrived in Cordova so BK SH Marshall Asia Bush Oliver but cuff wats all of Ragusa with all my hearts as so many other Jews and the family was forced to flee Spain and for eleven years they're on the road for 11 years formative years of his life they're on the road according to some in a cave according to some visiting cities and countries but without a place to rest only 11 years later does the family finally arrive from all places in Fez in Morocco in North Africa and that's where Rama would remain for a few years for around five years they would be forced to flee again from the almohads and they would go to Egypt Eritrea all the rambam would remain for a little while and I to stall and then ultimately settle in Egypt for the remainder of his life he would live in Egypt for more than four decades and that's where most of his work would be created and that's where he would he would pass away at the age of 23 still on the run from Cordova without a new city Iran bomb began his monumental work that we call Petersham is Nyhus la rumba a commentary on the whole shisha Sidra Mishnah written in arabic like all of the works of the Rumba besides one all of the works of the Rambam were written in Arabic later in his life he would write a letter that he regrets he did not write them in Russian Kurdish and part of his projects in the future is he's going to rewrite all of his works in Russian Kurdish unfortunately did not live long enough for that so all of his words are Arabic and we only have translations of them and of course the translations are great but no translation is great not because the translators are not great it's because a translation by definition is never accurate I mean those of you who read commissioned their richness when commissioned English you know there's just no way the translator can capture even the full content nevermind that which is bein assure is between the lines the purush our mission is of the Rumba which took him around ten years to write he started at 8:23 on the run he called it safer Hamal the book that casts a light a source of light to illuminate the mission I use the whole shisha surgery mission the Rambam spiritual mission is he called a forum or a neo so during those years author other works the Rambam wrote a commentary on Gomorrah on Talmud Bavli like Rashi wrote a comment a number of commentary on Seder Moyet on say their notion on Seder in Ezekiel armas after Hulan we don't have that the rambam wrote a summation of all the whole office of Talmud Yura shall me like the Rif did the Talmud Bavli Rev Alfa's did the Talmud Bavli a summation of the whole office of Talmud Bavli they Rambam did that the Talmud you reassure me that we also don't have we do have his commentary to the Michener's commentary to the Mishnah is certainly one of the greatest works of Jewish scholarship not only of how it explains the Mishnah not only it discusses the halacha of every mission not only because of the oldest scientific explanations in this period Sean Mathias but it was the first time that somebody articulated in an organized fashion the theology of Yiddish kind the hush cava of you described not only the practical halacha of you disguise as it's articulated in Matthias I think it was run by some Sherif all Hirsch the great rabbi of Frankfurt in Germany who once said that Christianity was a religion created by man to describe God and Judaism is a religion created by God to describe man and reverse was speaking from a philosophical rational point of view tanaka Gemara not the literature of what would later be known as Kabbalah Panem et cetera and Hasid this but from the Tanakh and Talmudic point of view it's a religion of God that is busy describing the human being if you eat anak you eaten a V him you read soothe him at least Chateau Lafite shots it's describing the human being the Rambam in his pure Hamish nice and many other works but it began with very shy Matthias so first of all in his introduction to parish Amish pious there's no way you can understand the structure of Judaism without the Ramblas introduction to prayer so much nice till today and it's really a pity that every year Shiva baka doesn't learn this the whole evolution of parish of all paths we did it come from who invented it how did it develop this whole Judaism that we know today in tough shinai n'doul and how did it emerge what are its premises what are its foundations what is its chemistry the introduction of the Rambam to his commentary of Mishnah he gives the Esaias of how territory ocean of all paths develops throughout the ages who gives the rabbi's their authority what is this Authority based on what did they hear what did they not hear how did it all develop this is a priceless a priceless gem of Under standing simply the basic building blocks of you disguise of Terry of a locker of our mystery of my tradition this is an introduction to permission ayats but in his introduction to pre-k of us that came to be known as shmouna Pro Kamla Haram bomb the eight chapters of the Rambam he gives his psychological perspective on life the soul the body attributes growth his moosers ashraf his introduction to peyrac Gaelic to the 11th chapter of Maya Smith sector Sanhedrin he discusses the basis of eki Addis what he articulated the first one as the 13 principles of Jewish faith that came to be known as the anima means you'd give Allah Karim what are we believing as Jews it was never articulated this was given over through the chicken soup through the kugel it was never articulated Iran mom articulated what do Jews believe in what don't they believe in the theology the philosophy the Hershkovitz olam the veldt unsound besides the commentary to the mission at the age of 27 the Rambam penned a letter that's published and you forgive me saying it again this letter is a must read for every Jew even the name of the letter e Garris hush mods which means the letter of Samad the letter of conversion to another religion or in some places it's called my murky sashimi Jerry's kiddush Hashem the letter of sanctification of God's name he was 27 he was a recent immigrant to Fez and the story behind this letter which is not a very long letter is an extraordinary story the story behind this letter is the emotional turmoil that wrecked havoc among the Jewish people as a result of the almohads remember the story of the house wherever they came they forced Jews either to die or convert now they had a policy the main thing was verbal confession you had to declare god is true and his prophet muhammad is true and you were good to go unlike the inquisitors later in the Christian religion and Spain who would search and scrutinised on Lucinda Muranos and create a whole infrastructure of terror and espionage to find out who's practicing the religion the Alma's for the most part didn't care what you did in your bedroom and in your kitchen in the privacy of your home what perturbed them more than anything was the public display of Jewish religion and a verbal confession and you visiting from time to time the mosques naturally most Jews did that many died were murdered on kiddush Hashem some many fled like the RAM bombs family but many gave this verbal not confession but acknowledgement of the authenticity of Mohammed and their lifes were speared naturally they couldn't go to show there was no public practice of Judaism but privately they continued to learn they continued to dive and they continue to do mitzvahs many of them one of these Jews let's call them one of these on no sim penned a letter to a rabbi a rabbi who didn't live in one of these places so he didn't experience and he asked him what his opinion about this phenomenon is and this man wrote back a letter which we know from the ROM BOMs letter in which he wrote that these Jews are what you would call today the scum of the earth the worst of the worst their leave they have a deserter their idol worshippers their loathed by God and by terror and by Jewish history let them not think that any prey or any Mitzvah they do is worth anything it's meaningless it's insignificant it's an abomination there's only one alternative the alternative is to die al-kindi Shasha if you could run away run away and all these Jews have no part in the Jewish people have no part in God this letter came back to the community of the Newson who were sensitive Jews who in many ways were fine Jews and it tore them to pieces it devastated them to their core their rambam at the age of 27 penned his first and probably most famous letter he said garish montt it's in this letter I once read somebody wrote if all we had from the romba was his he Garris are smart they a know that ya know and I understand why he wrote this the rambam we have much more but if you only have the garish Madalena what do you see there Gary says mom I'll tell you what you see at least the way I see it is this generally there are two types of people there are brains and there are hearts I mean there are also arms and legs but generally you have great brains and you have great hearts what I mean by this is there are people who are real academic geniuses not the ordinary person and they're usually not socially they're not social they have no time no patience no energy for people because most people are not in that league they love books they love scholarship they're geniuses they are brains even their legs are brains in the Jewish world many of them become going a olam you know babbling or saw me entice after and we shine him in our own image of American tour etcetera they're geniuses but their hearts don't match their brains they may be fine they may be nice they may be sensitive especially if they learn how locker they know that there are demon there are dynamos out of the hey be another massive area and they may practice all that and may be very ethical and moral but to say that you've seen them burning love and passion it's not it's not part of who they are and you have other people who are great hearts they're emotional people they're sensitive they experience agony they know what empathy is they know how to look into somebody's eyes and really be there for them but that takes a toll on the brain have big hearts gigantic hearts there's a tremendous warmth and I'm not talking about now people who have a balance of what I'm talking about extraordinary in one year at the ordinary in one another area it's rare that you will find in history a human being who truly and absolutely synthesizes both of these qualities in an extraordinary fashion we're the brain is unparalleled in its endless curiosity for knowledge and it's mastery of knowledge to a point that is mine staggering and yet there is a burning a versus wrong somebody who really hears odd-even kahan efforts to the depth of the soul for a Jew who may be living thousands and thousands of miles away that doesn't affect him in any way and the Rambam you see this and the Rambam you see it in the most vivid way and you see it very much in this letter in a garis are smart the Rambam was a great intellectual and he'd not say and he usually writes that way there's a certain manuka honey first is a serenity there's a hissy Asheville's a calmness that characterizes the roms writings but in a garish mods here he stands like a lawyer in court defending his people it's a letter just learning this letters could die but i want to quote one piece because I think that this always has to be told he speaks about this rabbi he says I want to tell this rabbi something generally people should have compassion on their they should be they should be calculated with their words much more than they're calculated with their money I wish he was calculated with his words more than he's calculated with his money and he says before you speak before you give adhirata make sure you prepare at once twice three times four times then review it then give it over but if you're going to write something then you have to think about it a thousand times before you transcribe a 1000 times we were speaking Mela that's for the rabbit but writing this you need a thousand times this person didn't do any of this and then he begins to review this man's letter point by point by point refuting it and he addresses the lives of four people moysha Elio an RV you Shia and the Maulana moysha tells us Hashem this week's parsha the halo yeah I mean only Jews won't believe me they don't believe me that the redemption is coming to do gula is coming and i sham tells him hey mom meaning Bonet my mini my camera and Shabbos tough shot eggs and their mom meaning been a mom in him you're the one who won't believe one day and partials hookahs the story of Mamie Reva Elio and avi come star Shem and tells him him Elohim Kondo a kanay seal a Shem kiasu Briscoe pay is wrong I'm zealous for God because the Jews abandoned your covenant so Hashem tells him I shot to Mohammed a value straw before you speak negatively about the Jewish people lalalalala made a vow whom asylum shouldn't have you first found the negativity what's going on by the nations of the world you Shia on avi tells Hashem in his neva aicohoi Stella's eine Qian mo New Jerusalem became a sign that said that yelling above our thammarat scheme they used to be justice and now it's full of murderers but told to me 'but i am to mace force i am a noisy Yosef he says later I'm dwelling among the nation with contaminated lips and the mala comes over to him and burns his lips for Speaking so about the Jewish people for like super Aceh Harari Menasha the Rambam says quotes the Gomorrah wasn't atoned till his own grandson Menasha killed him and then when the mala says about yahushua baño i saw doc that his decoding got in the beginning of a knee that his sons intermarried they married non-jews hashem says ye garish em before so he garish and boots on my age he's a strand rescued from the fire how dare you speak like this about the kind God whose sons intermarry dr. Rama in after quote in confidential moody oil on my Shelley yo you Shia or melaka Shirley's Keisha Natsu badass he so mad voron if the pillars of the world were so punished boys Shelley oh one over you Shia and angels when they spoke a little bit a little negativity against the Jewish people kosher Cain cow me Callie Olam yeah clearly showing the Alcala see Sir all how come him Tommy day him clean him Levine McCoy do some push him reassure him Soulier this week - by shamil okay so my ear on shine a light headed man gets up and speaks like this about the Jewish people they're going there - in their persona haters they poisoned area show him I don't know what his punishment he murder by a Mikayla vires i rave was von ah they didn't rebel against God because they were looking for luxury and for a life of prosperity well I also add a / Sigma Lovett and oh gosh mom they didn't abandon religion because of the pleasures of the time well yeah same ha Calvillo uhm God never abandons them by uraeus estrella god of Altec rip god of allah Bergdorf when it's cooked smells the smell of Yaakov Schlow DH the man who says doesn't save God the readed Boyd of his his rebels his trainers these are the Jews colmar Shama bought them a libre this rabbi invented everything and around mum here let's loose if I could express him and he describes first of all has shifted that Islam is not of a desert and they're not obligated to die sure it's praiseworthy if somebody can leave it's great and unbelievable if somebody's Mikado shush em but to say that they're not Jews and their horrible jewsí says how logically they're justified in doing it and every Mitzvah they do is unbelievable and then lady goes on to describe he says Nevada nets are there Russia took three steps the Comoros essence on Hedren Nebuchadnezzar took three steps in honor of our sham and because of that he received him a loser for three generations and these Jews for their mitzvahs don't get anything this is the gayest harsh mod of the Rambam that he rode at the age of 27 which means in 1160-1162 s i'm n shinned from fez they ultimately escaped to egypt artists role but the Rambam was not long in there too sure all he settled in Egypt 2 remainder of his life and there are letters the Rambam used to sign moysha been my mine however i'll Schleich olive and McCully own moisture Ben diamond the man who violates three transgressions every day goes test three times in the Taira don't go back to Egypt place a see friendly right some alum don't go back to Egypt imagine a rabbi today signing letters like that however I'll slash olive and Bacall yo him now of course why did he stay there I'm not sure there I'm bum was over on chelation laughing but call yo him they're showing him and I heard him talk a lot about this their album probably was not leave our social album will follow him but he was probably saying I'm sensitive to the fact that I'm living in Egypt I'm not taking it for granted you know he was conscientious he was alert every letter he wrote there's a you have to justify being in Egypt you have to justify being in Egypt just like according to schita seremban that you should register all as a mitzvah you have to justify living in New York living here United States of America it may be the right thing it may be the wrong thing that's a separate discussion but you have to justify it you have to ask yourself at least according to DISA Rambam if not a going to does Haram bomb I'm talking that it's a mitzvah sesame natera you shave our heads the Rambam life in Egypt once he arrived in Egypt was unbelievably successful but on another level it was unbelievably tragic the Rambam settles in Egypt first in Alexandria and then in Fustat which is the ancient city of Cairo who starts and remains there for the rest of his life till his passing when he comes to Egypt his father obey no my man passes away and his kinship to his father was simply extraordinary it devastated him terribly but another tragedy struck the Rambam he can afford to be entrenched in the world of Torah and Hoffman because of his partnership with his brother his brother of Dov it was a merchant of diamonds and pearls and they had a partnership the Rambam I guess was an investor or whatever the partnership was and of it supported the Rambam supported the family and on one trip to India for business Reb dovid drowned and not only did his wealth drown with him but also a lot of what he had in debt went down with him the Rambam writes in a letter that as a result he was depressed for a year and he became physically ill from pain he describes his love to his brother his comfort that he had some as well he was unbelievably close to his brother and his brother's death and his brother left a widow and his brother left a little girl and now he had to raise them the Rambam 's wife passed away and according to the rush in broca's marina washa two of the rum bombs children to both of his children passed away in egypt i should mention there is a gear sir that the rush mentor Ambon not the Rambam although many say there as its printed a rambha the Rambam did remarry he married a second wife in Egypt and he had two sons one is the famous Rubino of Ravenna Rambam and another one dove it who he named after his deceased brother but for the Rambam this agony was very very deep and the ramen was an extremely emotional and sensitive person sometimes he read some of his works you don't realize it when you read all of his works you realized the depth of their emblems emotion the rambam shitta generally was one of holistic Judaism it's a holistic human being which means flameless organic everything was included Judaism included the mind and the heart the body and the soul the brain for the Rambam avoid assertion was encompassing of the entire universe of the entire spectrum of scholarship of emotions of behavior there our mom didn't believe in fragmentation the Rambam was the ultimate issue oilless that encompassed every angle of human achievement and accomplishment and incorporated in it in his ashcoff Asylum of what he described is now in Egypt after his brother died the Rambam who was an unbelievable expert in medicine became an official physician and this opened a whole new chapter in his life because the leader of Egypt at the time was one of the most famous Islamic emperors in history no one as Saladin that even today even today some of the Arab leaders craved that they will be the Saladin of the present of the contemporary Arab world Casella didn't conquer and conquer and conquer and conquer and he appointed the Rambam as his personal physician and when he died and his maluca was challenged it was could was a contest contention among his seventeen children his son who took over there in in Cairo there Amin continued to be his physician and a letter the Rambam writes how each morning by harsh coma at dawn before dawn he has to get on his wagon onto his horse or his animal and go every single date to solid in to check on herself there's no exception he said if everything is good in the palace he gets home after midday if not if there's a problem then he could be there all day and if anybody else is sick in the family and the palace he has to be with them he says I come home there are my rights about a schedule I come home one of his his translators it been Haven wanted to come see him so he writes a letter I want to come see you see says you want to come see me but let me tell you my schedule I come home after midday and my home is packed with people Jews and non-jews simple people laymen scholars policemen military people people love me people who hate me and everybody needs my help whether it's in medicine or advice or counsel he says I come home starving macer off dead hungry I apologize to everybody for making them wait I going to grab something to eat and then all day I'm there with them till late midnight the only time I could speak to the Jews and I can read something is on Shabbos he says Shabbos right after Dominic I guess they'd have been right I do until midday they sit and learn with me and we discussed the community and then some come back also after minister till the night he says the only time I get to read something the Rambam was appointed by Saladin as the Nugget as the leader over the Judah Cahill is in Egypt and soon became to be known as literally the poised Akkad or the greatest how logic and spiritual authority of his generation at least by many many Jews so his time was extremely extremely limited to the point he says he doesn't have an extra minute in I want to mention another letter there Amon wrote another letter called a garis taemin the letter of Yemen he received a letter from the Jews in Yemen three things first of all they were terribly devastated because of the almohads because of the smart second there was a man in Yemen who decided he's mushiya he walked around day and night saying he's mushiya and third there was another Jew who kept on proving that and terrible Pez false a garish Taemin is a long an unbelievable gem of the roms literature this he already writes in Egypt and 1172 there he explains where anti-semitism comes from the core and the reasons of the hatred to the Jewish people what the terror is very explains the evolution of Toyota he refutes the person who has all of his questions on Toyota and then he discusses had a handle with the guy whose mushiya who he describes he needs a lot of help mentally we had a lot of mental challenges the Ramblas gives AIT's is there a garish Taemin you see once again his nature of leadership the ramen as a Manik the Rambam has an eye of his role the rambam as a practical person in the year 1170 at the age of 35 the Rambam began writing his what we called his magnum opus his most monumental work no and today as yadah Kazakh or in his name his mission at Toyota but before he wrote and he wrote an introductory work I don't know if you know called safer huh mitzvos safer a mitzvos is a small work it's an encyclopedia of all the 613 mitzvahs with the brief description of every Mitzvah it's a lovely introduction if you want to get to know every single Mitzvah briefly one or two or three paragraphs that's safer a mitzvahs that he wrote the first year the age of 35 1270 1170 in Egypt following that he begins developing each Mitzvah the mission attire now the mission attire deserves many years but at least a few moments of explaining something their album did today living almost a millennium later we take it for granted but we should not take for granted what the Rambam achieved with mission Authority there was absolutely no Seder to Judaism I mentioned before the issue of theology philosophy but forget that in how locker there's no st. if you learned Gomorrah you know that in one more second of Gomorrah have sued yeah after sued you have to sue yeah you have thousands of different subjects stories ideas conversations arguments dispute stock limit areas pupula my god I've got the history combined together and I'm a sector of Gomorrah usually no halakha never mind you have Bob Lee have your Asami I've Mathias you have theis efter you have Bryce's you have C free FC Fri after its created me of all the madrasah whether you begin where do you begin so the riff Frobenius a Kalfas who was from Fez alphys Fez fest fake-face sama why is called elfis is two reason either cause he was from Fez where there are mimosa live by the way in Fez they have a house they called the house of the Rambo and and also elfis is a pot is a pot the ribbon hits hook alphys the wreath began from Talmud Bavli he made a concise version from God the only halacha but even after that besides Talmud Bavli you have much more and even that it didn't include all the details it was only quotes from the gomorrah halahala my son imagine walking in to such a situation what do you do with it and the Rambam was the first one in jewish history to take the whole body of Melaka of jewish life of jewish behavior and he asked himself the question how do i give an order how do i give it structure and he did it how did he do it the first thing is he divided outlook into 14 general categories and those became the 14 names of his 14 smart 'm that's hence the name yad a Kazakh doesn't only mean a strong arm it means you donít because of his 14 safar him and listen to the names listen to the names because he had to come up and divide you describe into these 14 categories without anybody doing it before him knowledge love women relationships no knowledge love times times life cycles women relationships holiness holiness segregation or pledges agriculture service sacrifices purity civil damages acquisitions justice and judges leadership leadership mada Alva manum nauseum kedusha a flaw Jerome avoid the Carbonite Sahara and Zeke Ian Kenyon miss Potter - I once made a little joke I was giving a lecture on solemn bias merit marriage issues as I said all you want to know about Solon buys you just have to know from the Rambam structure because when the Rambam was wondering where do I put in all the whole office of marriage where does that fit into Judaism which category of the books so in this humorous imagination he went to consult different communities I'm not gonna say all of them by name but he went to consult different communities okay so he went to the Gera hassidim and he said we does marriage belong they said kedusha belongs in douche he went to the brisk air they said Kinyon so then it's a Kenyan it's a Kalos Canyon right if you learn condition with the brisket Toyota's you know what I'm talking about he went to another group not gonna say the name and they said Nichkhun he went to another group I don't have to say the name and they said it's all about Alva that's what it is another group said those without names in there aired and then they went I think probably was los angeles-hollywood and they said you know you can end up in a few months by the lawyers it's miss bottom it all ends up in court anyway you know it's in a question of estates and so forth and then he went to another group when that group said it's for short car bonus she's your carbon and then they went to a therapist the therapist says it's and I've read that and I've read their you gotta work on your marriage you know it's all about a void there and then another group screamed that it's Tyra I told about Tyra somebody else said it's my name this times I was I times as they don't take it too seriously etc etc came the Rambam and he made a safe recalled notion she's not a king in she's not a dick in and she's not you carbon and she's not you could do shed she's not you tada and she's not use Raya there's something called notion your wife has an independent personality she's a human being that was a my Muhammad's cur to take all of you describe and divided into these 14 categories and now within each one he put in the how losses of that realm so for example the book of Martha what he put there she put there he'll cuz he said a hot area the foundations of Turner which include the basis of Emunah he put there he'll his town metoya he'll cassava desert ilk is true ver he'll cos Deus the whole office of mid noise this is mother the knowledge the basis of wisdom what's your view on life a ver are all the mitzvahs that deal with our love love between the human being in God or an emotional relationship with Hashem he'll history law who has Krishna his Broca's since his Phillip manum lifecycles of course Shabbos a ravine Yom Tov comets a matzo Magilla Hanukkah show free Sokolov um kibish missus uh sir not him all the laws of marriage divorce he bunk elites etc and so he went on and on kedusha all the laws that create kedusha in Jewish life so you have for example Hill cosmic Allah sorceress its Arabia in relationships in food half law like the pledges Nidoran and so on and so forth is alia all the laws of agriculture through miss my sister's killer them Schmidt to be evil etc avoid the car bonus baisama Kadosh Tyra to man Tyra music and all civil relationships Kinyon laws of sales laws of partnership miss bottom is all the laws of miss bottom and then shaft which includes all the laws of Kings leaders the laws of even the laws of mushiya what's unique in the mission attire is there's not one how locker in the world of you describe that's not addressed in torrents of Honora you don't have healthiest of mushiya you don't have that lockers of the based on megadose yeah my locker samanas air but the Rambam wrote a book in which he wrote i called it mission attire of wine mission a Tyra what does mission attire I mean the second time why you can retire ship exile then read my safer and I quote his introduction the a made sorry of room safer Albania if you want to know how to live as a Jew day to day 365 days a year throughout your whole life how to hatch them how to match them how to dispatch them you have this you don't need anything else a know it sort of room safe admission attire you have terrible self you have this two minds said both interesting Verity that testify to this they come from different sources a yield was once on now you hid this a private order with the Lubavitch Arriba hasselbalch Akash a rough how do I know he wrote it in his safer what he heard from the Obama driver he wrote it in a safe what was in shyla Iran Berman's Magnum has a section called Hill cos Magilla Veronica how does he start Hill cos Magilla he starts with the laws of reading the Megillah right away you got to read the Megillah at night you got to read the Megillah by day the brothers how does he start he'll kiss Hanukkah you would expect the laws of chronic a delight Chanukah candles now he'll Toscana he begins be made by his SHANY Malka Yvan came and oppressed the Jewish people posture yoga my mind on didn't I say I'm locking someone's girdle the Greeks began making sorriest attachment I am revolted there was a whole war and when they were victorious they triumph and the story of the oil burning and then after two full of lockers with a Rambam tells the history he says Oh MEAP nazar he skeino and because of that the sages of that generation Institute at eight days of conic and he begins dial office so he asked her I don't know sir why doesn't he begin he'll kiss Magilla you know be make all Apsaras a guy Holman came around and did what he did and they were victorious and alipin Isaiah a good togashi so their ever said it's partial read their Imams introduction Iran mum says my safe his mission attire you retire some exile and then you want to know what's terrible path I articulate to you every I'll lock up our Jewish life past present future men women children leaders hi Adam Levine based I make theirs goalless mushy expose Manas their past future every I look of Jewish life so the ramen is assuming you finished reading tonight if you read the math you read McGillis Esther you know the history of poorab so he gets right to hawlucha but even if you're at the knife you don't know the story of Hanukkah he doesn't assume you learn shop is paid by man-made lake in Africa phallus under up on and my sonic not what he says he's loyal to his mission statement I finished on our kilkis Konica why my lighting candles cough a kiss looking anybody told me I'll tell you why something happened and then I saw a few years ago you she was a very sick Alcon and gave out of clave it's and they printed some oats of them for abhyasa burial of a chick he has to say question the answer now here is the irony of history or the irony of God the Rambam says you don't need any other safer besides this book you have the Bible what we call there is some exam you have mission attire you're done health day today God helps there's no safer that has sole mental commentary on it as their emblems which Tutera there's not one book in Jewish history that has so much written on it to explain what did he mean where did he get it the decipher every word every sentence every nuance in the Rambam mission at like the ROM bombs the other has our Commissioner Terry you said they'd only known the others safer after this there's probably 10,000 and this is not an exaggeration and every day of every week there's a new parish on the rhumba and some of them as you know have changed a lot of the course of Jewish learning there are catch of it's often Spanish al Haram bomb he do should have been a high in Malay viola Rambam the whole brisker Morales came from the Rama through the Rambam do you candy Rama they ran bombs mission a Toyota transformed the landscape of Judaism then because it wasn't just his style of writing not only his grammar not only his Russian Kaddish this is the only work he wrote on washing toilets not only his clarity not only his breathing but it's holistic component the Shamus suddenly a person went in into an endless maze into a mayim chayim safe literally an endless ocean which is what he describes as the yama talmud and he he created i say that there's a system there's a structure everyone every section of either Scott has a book every book has different hollowness every Hollow has different chapters every chapter has individual Home Office altogether how many our lockers are they in the 14 books of their M anybody knows how many I lock us on there if you take take Hill Chris he say the arterial hell Thursday individual office 83 pay Gitmo Hollis 83 hollows all together and you have the whole you describe that includes hookah smell Akashi at Hillis melaka muhammad slam okasan adren it includes everything 83 it's interesting and one of his sisters the Lubavitcher ever said the rambam passed away Huff Tavis he was born Erev Pesach that era of pace if he would have been 70 he died at 69 so he wasn't fulfilled but he says between HOF Tavis Arif paces has 83 days the 83 hollowness of the Rambam so to speak symbolically were marched them they completed the full cycle of 70 like Devon I'm Alex you Mason is saying about him Shiva me Shauna but the Rambam his mission at Toyota till today till today although we learned so Honora can we learn tour and we learn we showing him and with or not her own name etc but the Mahalo never mind the lung dis is from the mission attire that's why they're ever made at econo 99 was it 1980 year I remember tough shin mem hey 1985 just like this stuff yummy of Pavley it made Shapiro there's stuff yummy of you Rochelle me yeah so some yoga no Leno there's hahaha misters mission Imus so the lavash have made a tack on of Rambam ewing me in three ways one is three pro commission attire a day you finish in a year a year you finished the whole realm of the whole yada Kazakh that's three pro comedy one peyrac a day one Pedro Graham I'm a day you finished three years and he said children rather is that even that's difficult say for our mitzvos which is a short book and you also finish in a year and you learn every day the midst is that parallel this three program of the other kazanka when you ah say for amateurs that parallels what but this mission attire you read it you start looking at it and you appreciate when it was written how it was written the context in which it's written one marvels so he started it at the age of 35 he was 35 took him 10 years and he finished at the age of 45 of course he had critics the Rambam had many many critics they burned too smart amande France they burned his farm twice the government had his farm burned because of amis Syria of Jewish karna iam jealousness zealot zealous Druze in Yemen in Kaddish when he was alive they said bhai a kind of I'm a coin over high a the whole basis oil over saiaaa damn i run over a born emotion Ben diamond bug all of his man chorus that was the the reverence the war in which the Rambam was held but even if you go through the whole you Shiva system and sometimes you have a shear in a Rambam for three weeks you often don't get the full picture of the Rambam nor will you ever know that there are bomb authored approximately 20 books on medicine just 20 books on medicine besides everything else we have a number of them seven were proper published the rest are either lost or remain in library somewhere to be published one day but the Rambam wrote in the 12th century on medicine I was reading reviews from contemporary great physicians and they said the accuracy and the level of development of a man writing in the 12th century is unbelievably and how accurate it is scientifically useful to this very day there Amin wrote a book there was a problem in Egypt with snakes biting people he wrote a book about how dealing with snake bites before the doctor comes before medicine is applied from the Arabs asked them to write essays on intimacy which wasn't easy for him the processor he wrote that the Rambam wrote in his medicine he has works in dermatology pharmacology Anatomy the whole the whole structure of the human body the Rambam wrote a book on dick took Melissa egoyan books on on on a board one wonders we're a person had the mind had the time had the resources at the energy and besides he answered letters after letters after letters from all the killers of the Jewish world besides his daily leadership of the Jewish communities and being one of the greatest physicians and philosophers and towards after the Mishnah trader he got into his great book which was an incredible achievement known as the Marin avoid the guide to the perplexed the murder of welcome is an intense safer it has three sections but it's quite an intense safer and the murder of welcome this is the book in which the Rambam addresses himself to all the perplexed and gives a whole philosophical explanation of Judaism using all the contemporary philosophy at the time which was primarily Greek philosophy from the school of Aristotle and showing that Judaism embodies the ultimate truth of existence and the ultimate truth the philosophy is around them did it in a in a most brilliant way an extraordinary organized way Mayer in the book I'm going through the reasons for all the mistress explaining what prophecy is what Toyota is what Judaism is going through all the different artifice of you despite the marina Volcom is a world a world in and of itself and a of course it was also know not know small controversial safer in many ways because of its nature because of its quality I want to read to you I want to read to you something it's just very interesting I think it has a lot of contemporary relevance the Rambam of course had a position why did he have a position like always some people probably the same sure my man some people it's called jealousy there was a man who was actually a genius he was a great receiver his name was rip small been a li he had a yeshiva in Baghdad in Iraq and bubble Babylonia Iraq rip small been a li his name of the yeshiva was going active which means the pride of Yaakov the pride or denim here the issue it was very hard for him to deal with their own mother and he had a lot of opposition to the rumble although he respected him he writes a letter to the Rambam in which he refused to sucked in that you're allowed to travel on Shabbos and boats through the great rivers and Baghdad they had a minute against it he challenges around them how can you write that he writes very respectfully how you're praising the whole world he says you know I read your letter and I thank you for all the praises but it's been Michael you praising me I wish you would have thought about my words a little more instead of praising me you should have reflected on what I said because it was somewhat of a cover-up of his deep opposition to the rambles now there are mad a beloved student who came to study with him in Egypt then the Rambam saw in him his child his spiritual child his name was our Boehner Yosef Rob a new Yosef eben Eckland review Asaph he moved to Baghdad and he was very perturbed by description wall and he decided he's opening up a new yeshiva in bag and this his sheep is going to be taught according to the round boat they were here they're gonna learn this farm of the Rambam yes Thomas farm had an unbelievable impact in his days as Pierre Simon ayahs his yada has upped his mission at Toyota's marina for him some were even translated during his lifetime so he asked the Rambam he asked the Rambam about doing it about opening up this competitive achieve in Baghdad so the Rambam says to him my dear child like awesome seja ishbal maha like bhaumik like Costco don't make this man your bamaca like us don't get into a fight in hokhmah Inc on Zeke no yes come even if there may might not be profound wisdom in his attacks on me there's an issue of age you're a young man he's an elderly person so the abusive asks them he says or not didn't say how you shouldn't don't say this man spews venom against you justice has to be done so their album says this he had a lot of power in Baghdad she was had a lot of political power she says after koltes roy wang say hadass most religious figures who have power you say your relief Nahum dubbers shall pay gaya be she lose l'm Yaffe's idiot : of of arsenal most religious people when something happens that affects their power their entire humility their entire subservience their entire adel kite is gone the ROI of shaumbra hadass me been balayage or a sailor Kevon sham IBM with Shara mr. Lucas Manisha Maya most religious people the moment it's an issue of power the year is sham I am their fear of heaven is God keiki of hominid sativus my gosh of Avila is a crucial Mina - Madan they start believing that ministers that ethics are not part of religion that's not part that's not part of religion the Rambam says you're so upset you expect them not to scream Klum Aynsley a day of sugar I'm telling Nezzer Kaurava harassed us Miami for you expect them not to be upset at you don't you know that you ruined his name shall male actor Harish our goal is beyond they can throw out a bit see pardon a dog if not for you the whole community he would be the undisputed leader like a bird that's caught by a dog by uh an ostrich catches a burden its prey he would have had everybody and you came and you made your own my sir I'll teach me Misha to go to - extra Africa demand from somebody whose name and reputation and power you're damaging that he should love you don't expect that in life and the Rambam tells his students don't make him your bow don't make him don't make him your bow mark Lakers because when it comes to these issues of power you don't realize what happens even to great people even to very very religious people a life of me destroyers of your sham I am could some believe that somebody sometimes fly out the window and sometimes you wonder if this wasn't written in tough shinai in dollars in tough should I end Allen and probably probably many many other times you probably know that there is a to Phyllis hi Roy FA a prayer of a doctor that was attributed to the Rambam who was a great physician you know the Rambam wrote this Phyllis are - it's it's it's not a short prayer but there's two lines that one has to remember to see something about their album he says before he would start his work he made me Mason a sad smile is a signal now see I'm getting ready to start working in my job as a physician today Nina Shakib evade or see help me Asha 10 Billy be a ver loom no see Philippi a second implant in my heart love to my craft and to your creatures Val TT lavas ha betcha Olesya Fossati he lava-covered lease Arriba Vader see key emitters are Elemis nog noise lavas are MSO lava sabri's don't allow love of money and craving for reputation and glory to intervene to my work because these attributes oppose the love of truth and the love of people give me strength li i stomach muha moo-ha asurela dalitai FLIR a low-level assignment with the area taunted McCoy Ladakh asylum I should be ready to help the wealthy and the poor the good and the bad my friends and my enemies I should always see in every sick person only the human being in him give me strength Nega - item I miss Ackerman Hanoi Stan be due fee shall I Oscar Madera ha Emma's beliefs amass upon those who are always making fun of me and putting me down it should not cause me to leave the path of truth without becoming deceptive in any way without bribing anyway there was an arab poet his name was Al Saeed ebon see no you don't have to remember that al-saeed eben Sinha okay he wrote a poem about the rambha now till there are bombs day the greatest physician in human history was a man known as Gallinas a brilliant brilliant physician he writes this this this Arab Dussehra poet Al Saud even seen a says Galindo Sierra Baracus a goof who been my mine yup a as a goof on FS carrot Galindo's hill healed the body the son of my Mon Maimonides he for him he heals the body and the soul as one Ally they cook Masayoshi Lully repair fellow me mashallah Sbarro's his wisdom as such he can even heal us from the disease of ignorance the greatest disease of all he sees that you think you know it he can heal us of that loop on sale of olive Anna are you me rapping I'm a simile Cleo come to the Rambam he would be able to heal even the moon from its ancient blemish you know we know about the moon and the Sun ain't named elastomers Thompson because I reckoned he would be able to heal you'll be able to heal the moon as well when the Rambam writes his letters there's a letter in which he describes something about himself he says this it's a letter to sages and lou.neil in France there's a new who if you know your mio the first chapter of your meal you're Mia tells God I'm afraid to become a prophet so I Shem says when you were still in the womb of your mother I chose you so the Rambam paraphrases that he says but tell him no it's RTB bettan at Tyria da Tony before I was formed in the womb the terror knew me but terram AIT's a mere sham hick - Donnie did she saw me before I left my mother's room the toyota has sanctified me aloha fits my nicer hoots ah miss Sun sunny and to spread its Wellsprings outwards God has designated me the he ILS ahoo vivacious new diet abhava this is the love of my life the Afghans unosom na Korea's NASA Watts our eyes but with my love I introduced other women second women Gentile women who became sometimes Saurus my avea is harmonious Cydonia side do me Oh sweetie I introduced Moabites Hittites the realm of course is referring metaphorically to the fact every book of science every book of astronomy every book of philosophy every book of architecture every book that was available in all the coasts of the world from biology to physics to astronomy to philosopher ebook for Kaylie idea kill a new cuckoo Mattila el le hacen el derecho fleshly Tabata Salafis la Harris ah remember sorry Monsieur Tovah smari he admired God knows that they were all taken in order to serve as spices to spice up and give delicacy to my original love to my original white wifed and show all the nations how beautiful she is now there are mum is demonstrating his view how for him everything ultimately was an exercise in revealing the truth of Hashem the truth of godliness the truth of Tara the truth of Yiddish guide in the world in the most holistic way both academically as well as emotionally and as well as practically so till today a person wants to understand the exact definition of a sugah if you want to get to the oh you make I ain't goin if you want to dissect the definition of a halakha you look how the Rambam articulates it in yadda kazakh and you'll have here the deepest depths of clarifying and asougi Amara and halacha the way its crystallized through the words of the Arab Imam tilted a great Russian Shiva's and great teachers and great scholars will sit from months on two lines and a sentence of their album to show his Mahalo how he defined a particular sugan Bavli and your shall me in svaha more in Hulan in Hilda Shabbos or in Hell Siskel I and wherever it is but that same extraordinary depth that's the Rambam on one level and that's a very true Rama and then there's the Rambam as the great passionate lover defender of the Jewish people does the Rambam as the great extraordinary philosopher and astronomer and mathematician and leader the Rambam passed away in the December 13th 1204 guff Tavis valid tough tough call sama hey he was born 11:35 and passed away 69 70 years later 1204 the beginning of 12 depends how you make the judgment somebody we don't know who wrote near hizmet's Ava aligned Adam Malloy Adam Vemma Adam MS me Malachi Rahim in haha Raza my umbrella kale the aim ish of ish malapa Elam Paxton Barossa he got that I'll explain a person wrote I'm not sure was the Rambam a human being was he not a human being Adam Vallejo though if he was really a human being like everybody else then somehow his mother brought him to the world just came out from the angels of heaven or if he's not a person I tell God if he didn't come from a woman and from a man if he didn't have a mother and a father he certainly looks like a human being so you basically carved out an angel in the image of a human being down here below now of course person wasn't trying to identify myths of another religion Casasola but what he was trying to say is that the Rambam as a human being remains an unparalleled source of love and inspiration and wisdom for the Eternity of Jewish history have a wonderful evening you