Maimonides / Children's Edition
The same difficulty, in clearer words.
These books follow the same sources, in the same order, as the other two editions. The examples are concrete and the sentences are simpler. The ideas are not reduced.
The sequence
- When a Word Pretends to Be a Thing — Treatise on Logic, Chapter 10
- The Thought That Got Stuck in Your Mouth — Treatise on Logic, Chapter 14
- What Am I Made Of? — Shemoneh Perakim
- The Word That Doesn't Cross — Yesodei HaTorah 1:1–1:4
- When “One” Doesn't Mean One — Yesodei HaTorah 1:5–1:6
- Words That Point Beyond Themselves — Yesodei HaTorah 1:7–1:12
- Look Up. What Do You See? — Yesodei HaTorah 2:1–2:2
- Everything Changes — Yesodei HaTorah 2:3
- Angels Are Not Their Pictures — Yesodei HaTorah 2:4–2:9
- Knowing Is Not Something God Has — Yesodei HaTorah 2:10
- The Eye That Is Not the Eye — Yesodei HaTorah 4:7
- Beyond Either/Or — Yesodei HaTorah 4:8
- When the Same Word Means Different Things — Guide Introduction and selected chapters
- The Only Way to Reach Someone — Guide I:46, I:64–65
- The Translator Who Had to Understand First — Letter to Ibn Tibbon
- The Dictionary That Admitted It Couldn't Help — Ibn Tibbon's glossary
Current work
Approved matrix · 17 chapters · Chapters 1–2 approved
The Word That Doesn't Cross
The recovered Children's Emes file begins with Chapter 2. Chapter 1 is separately preserved; they will not be silently joined or presented as one complete manuscript.
Approved matrix · 4 chapters · drafting not begun
What If God Wasn't There?
A thought experiment about everything depending on a ground it cannot do without.
Approved revised matrix · 4 chapters · drafting not begun
When “One” Doesn't Mean One
Why God's oneness is not like one object, one group, or one thing with parts.
Approved complete draft · 8 chapters
The Translator Who Admitted It Was Hard
The Children's Ibn Tibbon preface ebook is complete and preserved as a style reference.
The separate Foundations Ebook Project contains twenty-two completed law-specific volumes. It remains available and is not replaced by this audience edition.