Maimonides, or Moshe ben Maimon (1135-1204), was a rabbi, philosopher, and physician who was born in Spain and lived most of his adult life in Egypt, where he became court physician to one of the rulers of Egypt. He is considered one of the greatest Jewish scholars. His best known work is Guide to the Perplexed, in which he reconciles Jewish theology with the philosophy of Aristotle. He is popularly known as Rambam (from Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon).

1. God is the Creator of all things.

2. The Creator is a Unity, and he alone is our God, who was, and is, and will be.

3. The Creator is not a body; he is free from all accidents of matter; and he has not any form whatsoever.

4. The Creator is the first and the last.

5. To the Creator, and to him alone, it is right to pray; it is not right to pray to any being besides him.

6. All the words of the prophets are true.

7. The prophecy of Moses our teacher was true; he was the chief of the prophets, both of those that preceded and of those that followed him.

8. The whole Law, now in our possession, is the same that was given to Moses.

9. This Law will not be changed, and that there will never be any other law from the Creator.

10. The Creator knows every deed of the children of men, and all their thoughts, as it is said, `It is he that fashions the heart of them all, and gives heed to all their deeds.'

11. The Creator rewards those that keep his commandments, and punishes those that transgress them.

12. The Messiah will come and we will wait for him.

13. There will be a resurrection of the dead at the time when it shall please the Creator.