::: ''"... no Israelite can have any private interview with me, except on the [[Sabbath]]. On that day the whole congregation, or at least the majority of the members, come to me after the morning service, when I instruct them as to their proceedings during the whole week; we study together a little until noon, when they depart. Some of them return, and read with me after the afternoon service until evening prayers. In this manner I spend that day."'' <ref>[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Maimonides.html Maimonides/Rambam]</ref>
He was renowned for his efforts to reach fair judgments; in interpreting some of the sexist presumptions and rules of the [[Talmud]], Maimonides often struggled to reach outcomes which would allow women to be happy and fulfill in their lives.{{fact}} Maimonides also wrote medical treatises on a number of diseases and their cures.
Succeeding generations of philosophers wrote extensive commentaries on his works, which influenced thinkers as diverse as St. [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Spinoza]], [[Leibniz]], and [[Sir Isaac Newton|Newton]]. In concert with [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]], he holds that like the body, the soul can be diseased or healthy... virtue is a habit that can only be developed by practice.