Yehuda Halevi - Secular poetry - Article Index

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Judah Ha-Levi, also Yehudah Halevi, or Judah ben Samuel Halevi(Hebrew רבי יהודה הלוי) (c.1085-1141 CE) was a Jewish Spanish p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Secular Poetry
The first place in his secular or non-liturgical poetry is occupied by poems of friendship and eulogy. Judah must have possessed an attra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Youth
As a youth Ha-Levi lived a life of pleasure. He mixed pleasure with learning. It is possible that Judah's father, Samuel "the Castilian,"...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Synagogal Poetry
The poems of Judah ha-Levi, which have been adopted into the liturgy, number (in all) more than 300. The longest, and most comprehensive ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - As A Philosopher
The position of Judah ha-Levi in the domain of Jewish philosophy is parallel to that occupied in Islam by Ghazali, by whom he was influen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Analysis Of His Poetry
The remarkable, and apparently in-dissoluble, union of religion, nationalism, and patriotism, which were so characteristic of post-exilic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Religious Poetry
After living a life devoted to worldly pleasures, ha-Levi was to experience a kind of "awakening"; a shock, that changed his outlook on t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Journey To The Holy Land
Judah ha-Levi does not seem to have been contented in Toledo; for he re-moved to the Muslim city of Córdoba. Even here, he did not feel ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Love Songs
Joyous, careless youth, and merry, happy delight in life find their expression in his love-songs. Many of these are epithalamia; and are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yehuda Halevi: Encyclopedia Ii - Yehuda Halevi - Patriotism
Next to God, the Jewish people stands nearest to his heart: their sufferings and hopes are his. Like the authors of the Psalms, he gladly...   » Read the article