 Maimonides considered that the only genuine pleasures are intellectual ones, and the type of bodily rewards that were often associated with the Resurrection are not only without value, except as incentives for those who lack wisdom, but also misleading, because we should act in accord with God’s law for love of God, not from hope of reward (Commentary on Mishnah, Introduction to Sanhedrin [translated in “Maimonides on the Jewish Creed”, 1906]). He none the less asserted the Resurrection as part of the Jewish creed, and rejected criticisms that he had ever denied it. As in many places, his genuine position is open to interpretation.