Moses ben Maimon, known throughout the the world as Maimonides or the Rambam, is univerally recognized as a brilliant and influential personality. His profound writings on rabbinic, philosophical, and medical topics include the Mishneh Torah, a monumental compilation and systemization of all biblical and talmudic laws, the masterful Guide of the Perplexed, and hundreds of treatises and commentaries. In Six Treatises Attributed to Maimonides, Dr. Fred Rosner examines six works that were allegedly written by the great scholar: Pirke Hahatzlachah (Treatise on Eternal Bliss), Sefer Refu'ot (The Book of Remedies), Tefilat Harofe (The Physician's Prayer), Sha'are Hamusar (The Gates of Moral Instruction), Megillat Setarim (Scroll of the Unrevealed), and Letter to the Jews of Fez about the Messiah in Isfahan. The author offers original, new translations of each of these documents. By carefully citing authoritative sources and through his own convincing and voluminous research, he demonstrates that none of these treatises could have been written by the Rambam. Of particular interest to readers is Dr. Rosner's carefully constructed study of the well-known Physician's Prayer, which irrevocably proves it to be the work of another writer. Like Dr. Rosner's previous volume, The Existence and Unity of God, Six Treatises Attributed to Maimonides is an invaluable contribution to Maimonidean scholarship.
Translated by Fred Rosner, M.D.