This page is part of my Twitter Thread Index. Every Sunday, I post a thread on Twitter about a figure from Jewish history and why their work matters. The threads are collected in browsable form in the index.
R. Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Rambam or Maimonides (c. 1038-1204), reconfigured halacha and clarified its underlying theory, insisted on the significance of human reason while reaching for the sublime—all as a displaced political refugee.