Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed"A classic of medieval Jewish philosophy, Maimonidess Guide of the Perplexed is as influential as it is difficult and demanding. Not only does the work contain contraryeven contradictorystatements, but Maimonides deliberately wrote in a guarded and dissembling manner in order to convey different meanings to different readers, with the knowledge that many would resist his bold reformulations of God and his relation to mankind. As a result, for all the