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HEALTH CONDUCT IN INTERCOURSE
TAKEN FROM RABBI MOSHE MAIMON
MORDECHAI L. WILENSKY
Hebrew College, Boston, Mass.
4D
rSl3rin r'nr (Medical Writings), Vol. 2.
5 Vol.
3, 1838, pp. 9-31.
6
Qb' 1,'i a,:nrD,vol. 1, pp. 27-85.
[3] HEALTHCONDUCT IN INTERCOURSE 103
7 Pp.21-43.
8
Maimonides,"On SexualIntercourse,"Brooklyn,1961.
9 Die Hebraischen
Ubersetzungendes Mittelaltersund die Juden als Dol-
metscher,Berlin, 1893 (1956 edition, SS. 763-764); DieArabischeLiteraturder
Juden, Frankfurta/M, 1902, S. 213. See also Steinschneider'sarticle in Je-
shurun,Furth, 1866, S. 185.
'0 S.213.
104 MORDECHAIL. WILENSKY [4]
Rabbi Zerahia Ben Shaltiel and the anonymous translation
accordingto the Munich and Parma manuscripts.The second
treatise was publishedby Kronerin Arabic and Hebrewletters,
and he added a German translation in his above-mentioned
book Ein Beitrag zur Geschichteder Medizin ...
Kroner,aftera thoroughresearch,agreeswith Steinschneider's
opinionthatbothtreatiseswerewrittenby Maimonides.Muntner
published the first treatise as translatedby Rabbi ZerahiaBen
Shaltiel,Jerusalem,1965." As I mentioned earlierhe translated
and publishedthe second treatise,Jerusalem,1965.12
As I have alreadypointed out, the exclusive topic of these two
treatises written by Maimonides is man's sexual life. But this
topic is also discussed in the other medical writingsof Maimon-
ides. It is treatedin the above-mentionedPirqeiMoshe, chapter
17,13and the entire ninth paragraphof chapter 4 in Hanhagat
Ha-briutdeals with sexual intercourse.14
Moreover, Maimonides discusses this subject in Hilkhot
De'ot;'s it is further treated in his commentary to Mishna
Sanhedrin,16not to mention IssureiBi'ah in the Mishne Torah,
where Maimonides deals with sexual life from an exclusively
Halakhic perspective.
My present paper concerns a short treatise whose exclusive
topic is man's sexual life. To the best of my knowledge, this
treatise has not only never been published,but is not known or
mentioned in all of the research literature on Maimonides'
medical writings or in other studies on this subject
In the summer of 1967, during my stay in Leningradwhile
pursuing my researchwork at the Friedland Collection in the
24 See chapter 4 of the first treatise ("m1'Sin D313D, vol. 4, p. 51) and
p. 24). See also
prescription 8 in the second treatise in Muntner's r,:,;ln "rnn;,
MorrisGorlin'stranslationsof the two Maimonidestreatises,Brooklyn,1961,
pp. 34, 36, and 64.
25 The treatisewas writtenin Arabicand was translatedinto Hebrewanony-
1tri 1 at theend of
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De'ot, 4, 19. See note 2 to the introduction; compare also J.
Harizi's n'11 Mn xl I at the end of 15on I pl 1, Amsterdam, 1715;
see also Tractate Shabbath 152a.
2 Ecc. 1.
8, 1.
Ecc.8,
3 I was not able to identify the "UMnM".
4 Proverbs 12, 25.
5 Compare ntIn';'7
(Muntner s edition) p. 148; see also Maimonides second
treatise on sexual life, (Muntner's ivn"n arnn, p. 28; M. Gorlin s Maimonides
"on Sexual intercourse" , Brooklyn 1961, p. 69).
6 Hilkhot De'ot, 4, 19; compare also Harizi's ! T1; n i 1x l.
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