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🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

1. A sketch of important dates in Maimonides Life
2. Selected Writings from several of Maimonides works that explain his view on physical, mental, and spiritual health.
3. Visionary Tales that express Maimonides alternative approaches to health, perspective, healing, medicine, and empathy

🎨 Impressions

Maimonides looked carefully into the 👀 of each patient in order to determine illness

How I Discovered It

At the Chabad of Uptown Houston

Who Should Read It?

Anyone interested in reading about Maimonides, the great philosopher and physician who's knowledge is used today in many subjects , including philosophy and medicine.

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

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• I had asked for a concise book that presents the main ideas and concepts introduced by Maimonides, so this was great.
• The approach in health and mindset I have developed models closely to Maimonides

The ancient sages preferred to pause and meditate one hour before the service and one hour after the service, and take one hour in its recital (Mishneh Torah book 2, treatise 2, chapter 4:16).

✍️ My Top 3 Quotes

If a person, perfect in his intellectual and moral faculties, and also perfect - as far as possible - in his imaginative faculty prepares himself [properly] ... he must become a prophet, for prophecy is a natural state of humanity.