Essays on Maimonides

The Maimonides Medical Center has been in operation for 70 years now since 1947. It is still right to say that the hospital has been operational for over 70 years before it finally changed names to Maimonides Medical Center. The institution was first established in 1911 as a dispensary known as the New Utrecht. In 1919, several other dispensaries combined with Utrecht forming the Israel Hospital of Brooklyn. The United Israel Zion Hospital was later on formed in 1920 when the Israel Hospital of Brooklyn merged with the Zion Hospital. In 1947, the hospital merged with Beth Moses Hospital ...

DB-5

Jewish philosophy dependency on Hebrew scripture is explicitly eminent even when it is open to any other aspect outside. According to the philosophy, Torah (their source of knowledge) existed prior to creation of earth just as the Hebrew scripture stipulates. Additionally, they borrowed biblical quotations to support their time and knowledge base to induct a sense of philosophical rigor missing in their explanation. More so, there exists much knowledge about the soul in the Jewish philosophy. Vis-à-vis to that, the idea of the soul is derived from the knowledge that, God created the as a different entity from ...

Personal Statement

Having the power to aid people in their suffering, to alleviate pain and put a smile on a terminal patient’s face are powers granted to the special, select few, who have devoted themselves and their lives altruistically to putting the needs of others before their own. It is a vocation of inestimable and time-consuming challenges, and simultaneously, one of empathy and selfless aid. I must admit that before tragedy struck my life and in his dying moments, my father proved he would always be my guiding star, I was not certain if I possessed all the necessary traits one requires to ...