Editing Mishneh Torah of the Rambam (section)

== Its Purpose ==
In the introduction to the work, the Rambam explains the purpose of writing the sefer:

"And in this time additional troubles have increased, and the hour has pressed everyone, and the wisdom of our Sages has been lost, and the understanding of our wise men has been hidden; therefore those interpretations and responses and laws that the Geonim composed, and saw that they were clear matters, have become difficult in our days, and only few in number properly understand their matters... Therefore I girded my loins, I Moses the son of Maimon the Sephardi... and I saw fit to compose clear matters from all these works, regarding what is forbidden and permitted and pure and impure with other laws of the Torah: all in clear language and brief way, until the entire Torah SheBaal Peh will be arranged in everyone's mouth, without question and without solution, and not this one saying thus and this one saying thus, but clear matters close and correct..."