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The basic tenets of our Torah and its fundamental principles are thirteen in number: The first fundamental principle is the existence of the Creator. There is a being who exists in the most perfect mode of existence, and he is the cause of he existence of all other beings.

Maimonides

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Maimonides. Commentary on the Mishnah Torah. c. 1168.

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Maimonides. "Commentary on Mishnah 1." The Essential Maimonides: Translations of the Rambam, translated by Avraham Yaakov Finkel. Jason Aronson, Inc., 1996.

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Even women and children and those with no aptitude for speculation can attain to a complete religion, for all men are on an equal footing as far as knowledge derived from the senses is concerned. Praised be God who in his wisdom ordered things thus.

Saadia Gaon

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