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Maimonides
Maimonides
1190·Córdoba, Spain

Every Israelite has a duty to study whether he is poor or rich, whether healthy or suffering, whether young or very old and in failing strength, even if he is poor and supported by charity or begs from door to door.

Read the passage→Laws Concerning the Study of the Torah, Chapter 1
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