Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Unusual Recorded Messages Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 89 17:39:32 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: John Cowan Organization: ESCC, New York City Lines: 23 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 261, message 6 of 6 In article jgd@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (John G Dobnick) writes: [various numbers omitted] >Dial-a-Rambam 962-1817 > >[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 a Hebrew acronym for "Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon", otherwise known as Moses Maimonides, the great medieval Jewish scholar. The a's are inserted for pronounceability. See >Encyclopedia Judaica< or any decent reference work, s.v. "Maimonides". I would assume that "Dial-A-Rambam" gives you a quotation from Maimonides' works, probably changed daily or weekly. -- Internet/Smail: cowan@marob.masa.com Dumb: uunet!hombre!marob!cowan Fidonet: JOHN COWAN of 1:107/711 Magpie: JOHN COWAN, (212) 420-0527 Charles li reis, nostre emperesdre magnes Set anz toz pleins at estet in Espagne.