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Moving Beyond the Scope: Translating Rambam/Maimonides 

JL;DR SUMMARY Yaakov Taubes reviews the second volume of ArtScroll's translation series of Maimonides' writings, focusing on Conduct and Character. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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MaimonidesRambamTranslationMishneh TorahArtscrollJewish PublishingMedieval Jewish PhilosophyJewish ScholarshipJudeo ArabicThe Guide Of The Perplexed

Places mentioned

Brooklyn, New York, United States
"One of the largest and most prominent Jewish publishers of traditional books in the United States, founded by two Orthodox rabbis in Brooklyn in 1976."
Lunel, Occitanie, France
"A major drive for translating Maimonides works came from the Jewish communities in Luneil (and elsewhere in Provence), which had long been enamored with Maimonides Mishneh Torah and sought greater access to his other works."
Seville, Spain
"as well as a defense of Maimonides from Sefer Ha-Zikkaron of R. Yom Tov ben Abraham of Seville, better known as Ritva."
Egypt
"Management of Health of Souls, a portion of a medical work written for Al-Afdal, son of Sultan Saladin of Egypt, which is included in the work because of some (very general) overlapping of themes found in Shemonah Perakim."

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