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Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה הלוי and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi יהודה בן שמואל הלוי ; Arabic: يهوذا اللاوي, romanized: Yahūḏa al-Lāwī; c. 1075 – 1141) was a Sephardic Jewish poet, physician and philosopher. He was born in Al-Andalus, either in Toledo or Tudela, in 1075.
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.
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 ...
On revelation, Halevi remarks that Judaism, unlike Christianity and Islam, affirms that God revealed himself not to a single person but to the 600,000 Israelites who came out of Egypt. He implies that an event witnessed by so many people must be true, whereas a claim by an individual to have received a divine revelation can easily be the result ...
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs
Learn about the life and works of Judah Halevi, a medieval Jewish poet, philosopher, and theologian who wrote in Hebrew and Arabic. Explore his national poetry, his dialogue treatise the Kuzari, and his influence on Jewish thought and Zionism.
Learn about Yehudah Halevi, one of the greatest Hebrew poets, who lived in Spain and Israel. Read his poems, such as Lord, Where Will I Find You, and his philosophical text the Kuzari.
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Spanish philosopher and Hebrew poet; born at Toledo, southern Castile, in the last quarter of the eleventh century; died in the Orient after 1140. If his birth is correctly assigned to 1085 or 1086 (Rapoport, in "Kerem Ḥemed," vii. 265), it occurred about the time of the eventful conquest of Toledo (May 24, 1085) by the Christian king Alfonso VI.
