Maimonides

Day 12 – 02/01/09 SEVILLE-CORDOBA We left Seville at noon to reach Cordoba at around 4 pm. The Hotel Eurostars Maimonides was face to face with The Mezquita. We decided to see that the next morning, as it would be free for entry before 10 am. We did ...

... off her shoe and started beating in the air as if a father should beat his son if he was a poor student. I'm sure Maimonides would concur....fortunately he's barefoot in the statue. ps - we all just heard about the plane crash in Madrid. Everyone ...

... inscriptions on the wall closely resembled those from Cordoba and ended up outside in front of Rambam's visage (The Rambam is Maimonides' "nickname," a common practice for referring to Jewish sages - in this case, it comes from Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, ...

... and raised on Jewish scripture and Aristotle´s philosophy. Like many tolerant Cordobans, he saw no conflict between the two. Maimonides became famous by writing the Guide of the Perplexed in which he asserted that secular knowledge and religious faith ...

... brilliant Jewish intellectual center in the Golden Age of Spain.  Three ancient synagogues still stand, gaze at the statue of Maimonides in Tiberias Square, walk the narrow alleys of the famous Juderia, or explore the shops and cafes in the Plaza ...

... nice as sevilla or salamanca, but definately interesting. Then we visited the jewish quarter and the tour guide explained all about Maimonides, and his relevance to Spanish culture...so cool that i knew one thing on this trip! Maimonides was a doctor and ...

... for the entire day, seeing sites like old Madrasa’s (Islamic schools) and the place where the famous Jewish philosopher Maimonides used to live and his complicated water clock that he built. Perhaps one of my favorite things about Morocco was the ...

... from the Iberian Peninsula to the middle east, Muslims, Christians and Jews lived in peace, harmony and mutual respect. Moses Maimonides, the 12th century Jewish humanist and philosopher, was born in Cordoba. One the city's most thriving industries was ...

... . For example, only a small number of Egyptians and Jews know that the great Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides worked as a doctor for the famous Sultan and anti-Crusader Saladin.  Even when someone wants to learn ...

... smart, engaged, and very excited to learn.  In two hours, we did five different texts studies (from Vapnyar to Maimonides and back), shared stories about our pasts, including one participant telling us about how the school leaders of his hometown in ...

... make thread, wrapping string around and around. We walked through the various streets and stands, stopping briefly at a building where Maimonides once lived.  Around the corner, we stopped at an old Muslim University (of which unfortunately I do not ...

... there seems to be so little protest here about what is going on in the settlements. This week, I read a text written by Maimonides saying that idolatry is the worship of anything that has been created. As the only thing not created is g-d, idolatry is ...

... with geometric Muslin-looking walls 156 Where the ark used to be which now has a cross painted on the wall 157 Statue of Maimonides, who was born up the street 158 Julie listening to the audio tour at the Alcazaba in Sevilla 159 Garden in the ...

... history and was home to many Arabic and Jewish philosophers and religious writers, the most famous being Averroes (Arab) and Maimonides (Jewish), and they each have sculptures and plazas named in their honour. One of the most interesting places I ...

... - an 10th century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible regarded as the most accurate in existence. The codex was referred to by Maimonides and seen as the absolute authority on vocalization (known as cantillation). The Codex traveled to Egypt then Aleppo (in ...