Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: sg04@gte.com (Steven Gutfreund) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Unusual Recorded Messages Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 89 13:47:39 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham MA Lines: 29 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 259, message 8 of 10 > [Moderator's Note: Can someone please explain what a 'rambam' is; as in > 'Dial A Rambam'??? Is it anything like Dial A Gay Atheist? Should I spend > thirteen cents on Reach Out tonight to find out? Is it worth thirteen > cents? PT] RaMbaM is an ancronym for Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (the Maimonedes) (approx 11th century). He was a major Jewish scholar, and also a philosopher and doctor. He wrote "The Mishna Torah" (a complete compedium of Jewish Laws) and "The Guide to the Perplexed" (the title is a bit misleading to contemporary readers, they think this is a psychological self-help book, in fact it is a scholarly refutation of Aristotelean philosophy). Many have a custom of learning several chapters a day of the Mishna Torah according to a yearly cycle, and the concepts can be difficult to grasp (plus the fact that there are no acceptable translations). Therefore, there some towns provide a taped telephone message with explanations of the daily portion. No, this does not have anything to do with TELECOM, but since you asked :-). -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Yechezkal Shimon Gutfreund sgutfreund@gte.com GTE Laboratories, Waltham MA ..!husc6!bunny!sgutfreund -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= [Moderator's Note: Yes, unfortunatly, since I asked.... I'm now waiting for the Yuk explanations to arrive. As in, 'oh, yuck! why did I bring this subject up?' PT]