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- Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
.]: 'I desire from your bounty, my lord--since you, together with God, can heal my soul and its organs, so that it can employ itself in the study of the sciences--to prescribe for me what I should eat, since this is necessary, so that I can more easily understand these matters [the philosophical problems described in the first part of the letter]'. That letter has also in common with ours the fact that Maimonides' reply is written on the back of the sheet." - S. […]
There are two blocks of text in Maimonides's hand on verso, at ninety degrees to each other. One is almost entirely illegible, does not appear to relate to the question on recto, and (very speculatively) could be a responsum for a legal question that the writer sent separately (though Stern would differ, as he read "dirham of lemon" where I read "shall be bound by a vow").
Recto
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . אחת שאלתי
- מאת ייי אותה אבקש אל ישוב דך נכלם תם
- אשתהי תדברני פי מא לאח לי אן אפעלה והו אני
- אכון אכל אלקדר…
Recto
- . . . One thing I have asked
- of the Lord, that will I seek after (Ps. 24:7). Do not turn away the oppressed shamefaced.
- I desire you to advise…
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