'should be to expend it for noble purposes, and to employ it for the maintenance of the body and the preservation of life, so that its owner may obtain a knowledge of God, in so far as that is vouchsafed unto man.'" - Sherwin Nuland, quoting Maimonides' Shemoah Perakim (Maimonides:2005)
This while explaining the persistence throughout history of Jews as doctors by way of introducing the Rambam.
Just starting this book. Very good so far. More on this later.
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