Judah halevi biography of william shakespeare

Spanish philosopher, poet and physician (c.

Rabbi Yehuda Halevi was a Jewish poet and philosopher.

This essay is the fourth in a series of essays on the Liturgical Poetry of Rabbi Yehudah Ha-Levi, the twelfth-century poet of Muslim Spain.

Yehudah HaLevi Biography.

Yehudah HaLevi Biography.

The poem explores the theme of self-love and narcissism through a mirror metaphor.

1075–1141)

Judah haLevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה בן שמואל הלוי‎, romanized: Yəhūḏā ben Šəmūʾēl halLēvī; Arabic: أبو الحسن يهوذا اللاوي, romanized: Abū-l-Ḥasan Yahūḏa al-Lāwī;^[4][5] c.

1075 – 1141) was a Sephardic Jewish poet, physician and philosopher. He was born in Al-Andalus, either in Toledo or Tudela, in 1075.^[6] He is thought to have died in 1141, in either Jerusalem, at that point the CrusaderKingdom of Jerusalem, or in Alexandria, Fatimid Egypt.^[6]

Halevi is considered one of the greatest Hebrew poets, celebrated both for his secular and religious poems, many of which appear in present-day liturgy.

His most famous philosophical work is the Kuzari.^[7]

Biography

Judah ben Samuel ha-Levi was born either in Toledo or Tudela, both then under Almoravid rule, between 1075 and 1080.^[8] The confusion surroun