  Reference has been made to Falaquera’s Moreh ha-Moreh, one of the first commentaries on Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed. The commentary is not on the entire book, but on only a little over a quarter of its chapters. Yet Maimonides had urged readers of the Guide “not to comment upon a single word of it and not to explain to another anything in it.” Falaquera was aware of this plea, but also knew that people were already misreading and misinterpreting the text. His own commentary is the first scholarly study of Maimonides’ philosophic sources, a topic that continues to engage scholars to this day. The knowledge of these sources – usually cited by Falaquera by name or epithet – and Maimonides’ agreement or disagreement with them is essential for a proper understanding of the Guide. Like the De‘ot ha-Filosofim, most of the commentary is pieced together from translated passages from other works, although here in the commentary he allows himself to comment, usually briefly and in his own name, on these passages. In addition to translating these sources, Falaquera retranslated his selections from the Guide.