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The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

Maimonides

Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation.
MAIMONIDES

Gift Hands Inspirational Practice Understand
All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
MAIMONIDES

Belief Desire End Evil God Hate Ignorance Knowledge Man Religious
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
MAIMONIDES

Charity Help Himself Man
Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
MAIMONIDES

Acceptance Misery Money Yourself
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
MAIMONIDES

Desire God Ideas Knowledge Man Passion
Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
MAIMONIDES

Body Man Philosophy Sin
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
MAIMONIDES

Better Death Guilty Oneself Person Satisfaction
God cannot be compared to anything.
MAIMONIDES

God One Liner
Hold firmly to your word.
MAIMONIDES

One Liner Word Yourself
The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind. They likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
MAIMONIDES

Evil People Strength Suffering
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
MAIMONIDES

Art Human Inspirational Love Myself See Suffering
Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
MAIMONIDES

Body Comfortable Emotional Grief Pain
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
MAIMONIDES

Himself Man View Youth
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
MAIMONIDES

Art One Liner Sick
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
MAIMONIDES

Generous Yourself
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
MAIMONIDES

Animal Difference Emotional Human Intellectual Love Mom Worry

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

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