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Maimonides

In Our Time

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The Importance of Being Congenial

Kari's command of the legal tradition and the Talmud, the Mishnah, these texts that we'll be getting on to talking about is probably greater than that of any other scholar who's there at the time. He got there, there's a sufficiently large Jewish community for him to be at ease there, as I understand it. And also of course, he was perfect ladies with a scholarship. This was again like Baghdad and Cordoba, a city of great scholars and great scholarships.

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