History, Jewish History with Sam Aronow

Maimonides, the Great Eagle (1138-1204)

February 22, 2021
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Sources:

Maimonides
Epistle to Yemen
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Epistle_to_Yemen/Complete

Maimonides
Guide for the Perplexed
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Guide_for_the_Perplexed_(1904)

Maimonides
Mishneh Torah
https://en.wikisource.org/?curid=576676

Maimonides
Sefer HaMitzvot
https://www.sefaria.org.il/Sefer_HaMitzvot

Bernard Lewis
“Maimonides, Lionheart, and Saladin”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23614676

“Who Was Moses Maimonides? The Life of the Mind”
Dr. Henry Abramson (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESbeIgl-l_s

0:00 Intro
1:19 Young Musa
4:12 The Bilbeis Crisis
5:52 The Rise of Saladin
7:52 The Yemenite Messiah
8:50 The Sefer HaMitzvot, Mishneh Torah, and Guide for the Perplexed
13:25 The Horns of Hattin
14:56 The Third Crusade
16:54 The Rambam’s Final Years