This is a website about a book written more than 800 years ago by an Iberian Jewish doctor in Fatimid/Ayubid Cairo, in classical Arabic using the Hebrew script.

It begins with the following phrase

This book [is] a key admitting to places the gates of which would otherwise be closed. When the gates are opened and men enter, their souls will enjoy repose, their eyes will be gratified, and their bodies will be eased of their toil and labour.

and ends with a quotation of the following Scriptural passages:

“Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped” (Isa. 35:5); “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the shadow of death upon them hath the light shined” (Isa. 9:1).

Here, you will find a personal commentary on Guide for the Perplexed (dalalat al-haa’ireen دلالة الحائرين or moreh nebuchim מורה נבוכים), the philosophical magnum opus of Moses Maimonides. It will take the form of chapter summaries with quotations from the original text, using the English translation of Michael Friedländer. Phrases from the Arabic are taken from the publicly available transliteration by Hussein Attai.

Each chapter summary is accompanied by a link to that chapter available on Sefaria, which is a website that provides easy access to a wide variety of Jewish religious texts. Most Old Testament quotations are also hyperlinked to the same website. At this point, Sefaria does not contain Shlomo Pines’ translation, which is still under copyright.