Maimonides

American  

[mahy-mon-i-deez] / maɪˈmɒn ɪˌdiz /

noun

1. Moses ben MaimonRaMBaM, 1135–1204, Jewish scholastic philosopher and rabbi, born in Spain: one of the major theologians of Judaism.

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Maimonides British  

/ maɪˈmɒnɪˌdiːz /

noun

1. also called Rabbi Moses ben Maimon. 1135–1204, Jewish philosopher, physician, and jurist, born in Spain. He codified Jewish law in Mishneh Torah (1180)

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Other Word Forms

• Maimonidean adjective

Example Sentences

Eight hundred years ago, the philosopher Maimonides wrote that the supreme purpose of giving is to make charity itself unnecessary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Rabbi Yoni Fein, who heads a large Jewish day school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Brauser Maimonides Academy, said “higher alerts of operations are definitely in place” in anticipation of global protests on Friday.

From Reuters • Oct. 13, 2023

Maimonides and Richmond University medical centers struck tentative deals Jan. 4.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2023

Sitting in the city’s cathedral, a former mosque near the home of Maimonides, a revered medieval Jewish philosopher, Mr. Zlekha Levy had an epiphany.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2022

This is what drove Maimonides, the twelfth-century rabbi, to write a tome to reconcile the Semitic, Eastern Bible with the Greek, Western philosophy that permeated Europe.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife