The Guide for the Perplexed is one of the major works of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon better known as Maimonides. This book offers us a harvest of utterly insane, consoling, and life-affirming insight from one of the wisest minds of our time. It is and unapologetic defense of traditional Christian humanism which will light many a darkned path. Maimonides delves into the most difficult questions of theology and reality itself, many of which are still controversial today. Did the universe have a beginning? Will it ever end? What is the nature of evil? Does the complexity of organic life imply some kind of rational design?