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expositions-49	none	The Piety of Socrates and Maimonides: Doing God's Work on Earth	2007	32	.pdf	application/pdf	13476	550	65	For if his aim were only to differentiate the level of closeness to God attained by Moses, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob from that attainable by other men, a general statement would have sufficed; he need not have said, “someone like myself.” For, on the one hand, helping others seems to go beyond the call of jus- tice: what justice ostensibly requires of people is that they refrain from harming others (see Ap. 37b–c, 41d–e; Crito 49a–e; Rep. 1.335a–e).3 yet, on the other hand, it would be difficult to think of a more fruit- ful way to serve God than by serving man.	cache/expositions-49.pdf	txt/expositions-49.txt