Astral Codex Ten

Maimonides

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Maimonides

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Maimonides is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between April 21, 2021 and December 10, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Still, Maimonides teaches us to look for rational explanations”; “Maimonides teaches us to look for rational explanations”; “previously unknown manuscripts of works by Maimonides”. It most often appears alongside Israel, United States, US.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: April 21, 2021
  • Last seen: December 10, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

No, Really, Why Are So Many Christians In Colombia Converting To Orthodox Judaism?
April 21, 2021 · Original source
Still, Maimonides teaches us to look for rational explanations for the workings of the Divine, so probably we should come up with some kind of sociological theory or something.
Inline links: teaches us
Your Book Review: Double Fold
April 30, 2021 · Original source
Perhaps the best illustration of the constantly expanding area of historical interest is the huge trove of medieval Jewish documents that was discovered in the geniza at Cairo in the 19th century and mostly brought to Europe. In the beginning, only Biblical texts attracted much interest, especially ones that had been presumed lost in the original Hebrew. Later, during the 20th century, the researchers suddenly became excited by the documents left behind by medieval Jewish intellectuals – previously unknown manuscripts of works by Maimonides and Judah Halevi, some of them written in their own hand. A generation or two later, new scholars looked into the everyday documents left behind in the geniza – receipts, contracts, and IOU’s, and used them to construct a social history of medieval Jews in Egypt. As Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole write in the book Secret Trash, there is only one constant in the research into the contents of the Cairo geniza: whatever had been left aside as boring and irrelevant by one generation became the cornerstone of the next generation’s scholarly pursuits.
Links For December 2025
December 10, 2025 · Original source
48: Open Philanthropy has changed its name to Coefficient Giving. Maimonides says that it is especially praiseworthy to donate to charity anonymously; surely it also qualifies if you spend $5 billion building up a great reputation, then change your name so that nobody knows who you are anymore. They say their new name marks a new chapter where they transition from being associated with one billionaire couple (Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna) to a broader effort to connect donors and opportunities, but rumor is they’re also tired of being confused with the OpenAI nonprofit.
Inline links: Open Philanthropy has changed its name to Coefficient Giving