Letter to Moses Maimonides

Jonathan ben David ha-Kohen was a leading talmudic scholar in Lunel, southern France. Jonathan wrote to Maimonides several times, posing a series of questions about the Mishneh Torah and requesting a copy of the Guide of the Perplexed. Jonathan also wrote a popular commentary on the Laws (Halakhot) of Isaac al-Fāsī (1013–1103) that remains in print. In 1210, he moved to the land of Israel, with a group that allegedly included three hundred French and English rabbis, where he later died.