[Avodah] Rambam/Support

[David Riceman]

Rich, Joel wrote:
>  
> The recent article in Tradition got me thinking in relation to a 
> discussion on Hirhurim about Doctors.  Let's assume for now that  the 
> Rambam learned full time and only went to work for Parnassa after his 
> brother died (we need not get into whether this was Yissachar/Zevulun 
> according to R' Moshe or "tzedakka"), why did he choose medicine which 
> seems to have led him to spend much less time on limud torah then he 
> might have spent had he  worked for parnassa at another profession?
See Shmonah Perakim Perek 5 (ed. Kafih p. 256 column 2 at the beginning 
of the new paragraph).

David Riceman