Maimonides Part 1
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Rabbi Wein homes in on the Rambam's prolific body of work, beginning with the Mishnah Torah, his compendium of halacha. Because he wrote it without citations, it gained him much criticism, and from his personal letters, we learn of the encounter that changed his mind about that decision. His later works reflected this, but criticism against him only heightened, this time because of his minority opinions on a variety of issues. How he faced his critics shows the brave yet human side of the great Rambam.