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“to discover prized words.”^117 The career and literary output of Mai-
monides record the incessant move of his inner pendulum between the
confl icting facets of his person: “from Moses,” the leader who suffered
his community, “to Moses” the phi losopher, who sought the face of
God.
(^117) Eccles. 12:10; see Guide, Dedicatory Epistle (Dalala, 1:20; cf. Pines, 4).