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Nethanel ben al-Fayyūmī
Nethanel ben al-Fayyūmī was a scholar, philosopher, and communal leader in San‘a, Yemen. The patronymic al-Fayyūmī indicates that Nethanel’s family hailed from Fayyūm, in Upper Egypt. It is thought that Maimonides sent his “Epistle to Yemen” to Nethanel’s son Jacob.
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The Garden of Wisdom
The world did not create itself since it is impossible for a thing to create itself, to originate its own essence. For if things created themselves, they would be autonomous, perfectly free in their…