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Washington can make the case for American indispensability.
September 29, 2026
A New Translation of Maimonides’s “Guide” Exchanges One Esoteric Interpretation for Another
A breath of fresh air, but perhaps not the same air breathed by Maimonides and his great interpreters.
The Guide of the Perplexed, the late-12th-century philosophic work by Moses Maimonides, has itself perplexed students for centuries. For much of the 20th century, students have relied on Shlomo Pines’s strictly literal translation composed in consultation with Leo Strauss. A new translation by Lenn Goodman and Phillip Lieberman is, in many ways, a rebuke to the Pines translation. As Yehuda Halper sees it, the push for readability comes at the cost of the careful reader’s ability to discern his way through Maimonides’s precise logic.
September 29, 2026
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A New Translation of Maimonides’s “Guide” Exchanges One Esoteric Interpretation for Another
A breath of fresh air, but perhaps not the same air breathed by Maimonides and his great interpreters.