Golden mean (Judaism) (English Wikipedia)

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Soloveitchik, Elijah Zvi (2019). The Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik's Commentary to the Gospels. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 98 n 59. ISBN 978-0-8122-5099-2. This rabbinic depiction of the "middle path" is Soloveitchik's adaptation of the Maimonidean "golden mean." Maimonides adopts from Aristotle's Ethics refracted through the Islamic theology of 'Al Farabi and others.
Lagerlund, Henrik, ed. (2010). Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy Between 500 and 1500. Springer. p. 332. ISBN 978-1-4020-9728-7. Maimonides adopts the Aristotelian notion that to become morally virtuous humans must practice the middle way (Weiss and Butterworth 1975)

Zimmerman, Binyamin (17 January 2016). "Shiur#24: The Uniqueness of Jewish Character and Ethics". Etzion Virtual Beit Midrash. Many have searched for the exact sources of the Rambam and have found that the Rambam bases much, if not most, of his explanations regarding the proper character traits and the golden mean on the works of Aristotle's Ethics and Al-Farabi's Fusul al-Madani (See Raymond L. Weiss's Maimonides' Ethics: The Encounter of Philosophic and Religious Morality, p. 23, for comparisons of the works.)

Schwartz, Michael; Harris, Howard, eds. (2020). War, Peace and Organizational Ethics. Emerald Group Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83982-778-5. According to Heschel (1982), Maimonides took this idea of the middle way from Aristotle - but with some specific variations.