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Raymond Scheindlin's new book blends scholarship, poetry, and literary biography to trace the spiritual transformation that inspired Judah Halevi's pilgrimage to Palestine in 1141. Halevi's fabled decision to abandon the comforts of Andalusian Spain for the rigors of a trip to his beloved Zion concluded, much as the aging poet envisioned, in death.
May 21, 2008 · Judah ben Samuel Halevi (c. 1075–1141) was the premier Hebrew poet of his generation in medieval Spain. Over the course of some fifty years, from the end of the 11 th century to the middle of the 12 th , he wrote nearly 800 poems, both secular and religious.
Nine poems describe Halevi’s ocean voyage and his mental state during its course. They display his ambivalence between missing his family and longing for his goal; his fear that the Holy Land will not be a sufficient compensation for his losses; and his resolve to put himself fully into God’s hands. Several poems describe storms at sea, the ...
Judah ben Shmuel Halevi was born either in Toledo or Tudela, Spain in 1075. The confusion surrounding his place of birth arises from unclear text in a manuscript. [2] Both cities were under Muslim control when he grew up but were conquered by Christian rulers during his lifetime; Toledo by Alfonso VI in 1086, and Tudela by Alfonso the Battler ...
Yehuda Halevi, or Judah ha-Levi, the philosopher of Judaism, was born in Toledo, Spain. In his youth he received an excellent grounding in biblical and rabbinic literature, as well as in the secular, particularly philosophic, disciplines. Halevi early displayed a marked poetic gift, which culminated in a body of Hebrew poetry noted for its ...
July 1141, Egypt. Judah ha-Levi (born c. 1075, Tudela, Kingdom of Pamplona [Navarre]—died July 1141, Egypt) was a Jewish poet and religious philosopher. His works were the culmination of the development of Hebrew poetry within the Arabic cultural sphere. Among his major works are the poems collected in Dīwān, the “Zionide” poems ...
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May 26, 2022 · Judah Halevi was, of course, familiar with the ancient Spanish dialect, which combined Arabic with words from Roman (Latin) origin, but his command of the Arabic language also enabled him to adapt quickly in southern Spain.
