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Maimonides
In Our Time
The Monadiz: A Complicated Person
My monadiz is a complicated person. He tells us that when his brother drowned, he experienced a year of real depression. But he comes out of these traumatic experiences, as you say, enriched and able to cope with the more nuanced experience of human life. And this finds its way into his writings. How do we know so much about my monadiz character compared with many of his contemporaries? The short answer is that we are lucky. My monadiz lived most of his adult life in Egypt. We have a treasure trove of documents called the Ganesa which was found in the synagogue in the 19th century. This gives us a wonderful opportunity to see his life and to
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