Maimonides

Mosheh ben Maimon, called Moses Maimonides and also known as Mūsā ibn Maymūn, is a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the most prolific and followed Torah scholars and physicians of the Middle Ages.

He was born in Córdoba, Almoravid Empire (present-day Spain) on Passover Eve, 1135, and dies in Egypt (or Tiberias) on 20th Tevet, December 12, 1204.

He is a rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Morocco and Egypt.

Although his writings on Jewish law and ethics are met with acclaim and gratitude from most Jews even as far off as Spain, Iraq and Yemen, and he rises to be the revered head of the Jewish community in Egypt, there are also vociferous critics of some of his rulings and other writings, particularly in Spain.

Nevertheless, he is posthumously acknowledged to be one of the foremost rabbinical arbiters and philosophers in Jewish history, his copious work a cornerstone of Jewish scholarship.

His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah still carries canonical authority as a codification of Talmudic law.

In the Yeshiva world, he is known as "haNesher haGadol" (the great eagle) in recognition of his outstanding status as a bona fide exponent of the Oral Torah.

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