The Rambam's early life was indelibly marked by one of the tragic turns of Jewish history. Born in the Golden Age of Spain, when Jews enjoyed nearly equal rights with their Moslem rulers, his peaceful world was abruptly interrupted by the fanatic Almohad Rebellion which forced his family to flee to Spain. Rabbi Wein paints the backdrop of the rise and fall of Jews in Moslem Spain and shows the Rambam's place within it: the son of a prominent Jew whose life and education took on a different color forever after.