Posts Tagged: rambam
Mind Your Own Business? Not When You Care
JNS.org - I wrote last week about the most famous biblical commandment: “love thy neighbor.” We shared commentary by Nachmanides (the Rambam) on how we...
Amid Israeli Deaths in Gaza War, How Do We Accept All the Evil in the World?
This week, the news of multiple IDF casualties in Gaza came like a gut punch, leaving us breathless with grief. Initially, we were told that...
Be Like Moses, Serve a Cause Greater Than Yourself
And so Moses dies, alone on a mountain with God – as he had been all those years ago when as a shepherd in Midian,...
Maimonides Leaves Lasting Legacy on Modern Medical Practice
JNS.org -Doctors around the world hold in high regard the writings and manner of care of medieval philosopher-physician Moses Maimonides ("Rambam"), whose teachings have...
Holiness and Childbirth
The sidrot (Torah portions) of Tazria and Metsorah contain laws which are among the most difficult to understand. They are about conditions of "impurity" arising...
Israel’s Medical Brain Drain
Last week the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) published a disturbing report suggesting that 14% of Israelis holding PhDs in the Sciences and Engineering...
