Rabbi Maimon ben Joseph (born c.1110) was a Spanish

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and dayyan (

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for "judge"). He is best known as the father of

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. His teacher was the respected scholar

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. He authored a commentary, in

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, on the

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, and also wrote on Jewish ritual and festival law.

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