Maimonides: Judaism for the Perplexed — Judaism Unbound Episode 443 - Lenn E. Goodman
Perplexed? About Judaism, and God, and life generally? Us too. Maimonides (also known as Rambam) wrote a book specifically for us called The Guide to the Perplexed, a bit more than 800 years ago, and it still has much to teach us today! Lenn E. Goodman, co-author of The Guide to the Perplexed: A New Translation (with Phillip I. Lieberman) joins Dan and Lex for a conversation about Maimonides’s work, and how we might apply it in our own time.
[1] Purchase The Guide to the Perplexed: A New Translation via this link — and purchase the companion book, entitled A Guide to the Guide to the Perplexed: A Reader’s Companion to Maimonides’ Masterwork, via this link. Learn more about Lenn Goodman here.
[2] Goodman mentions the influence that Al-Farabi had on Maimonides. Learn more about Al-Farabi here.
[3] You should definitely purchase Goodman and Lieberman’s translation of Guide to the Perplexed. If you’re looking in the meantime (while it ships to you, we hope!) for a free, online version of the text, click here.
[4] Dan mentioned at the top of the episode that we have Elul Unbound — our Judaism Unbound initiative that serves as an “on-ramp” to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur — coming up. Sign up for our Elul email list here!
