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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
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Maimonides
Age: 66 †
Born: 1138
Born: March 30
Died: 1204
Died: December 13
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Dayan
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Córdoba
Andalusia
Mosheh ben Maimon
Moses Maimonides
Mūsā ibn Maymūn
RaMBaM
Rabbeinu Mosheh Ben Maimon
Rambam
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