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Mosheh ben Yaaqov ibn Ezra

Mosheh ben Yaaqov ibn Ezra, (or Moses ibn Ezra, Arabic: أَبُو هَارُون مُوسَى بِن يَعْقُوب اِبْن عَزْرَا, Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה בֵּן יַעֲקֹב הַסַּלָּח אִבְּן עֶזְרָא) (ca. 1055-after 1138) born in Granada, was an Andalusian Jewish rabbi, philosopher, linguist, and poet known as Ha-Sallaḥ (for the seliḥot he composed). Moses Ibn Ezra is considered to have had great influence in the Arabic literary world and is considered one of Spain's greatest poets and was considered ahead of his time in his theories on the nature of poetry. One of the more revolutionary aspects of Ibn Ezra's poetry that has been debated is his definition of poetry as metaphor and how his poetry illuminates Aristotle's early ideas. The importance of ibn Ezra's philosophical works was minor compared to his poetry. They address his concept of the relationship between God and man.

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🆕 תְּפִלָּה לִסְגֻלַּת אִשִּׁים | Prayer for a practice of divine contemplation, attributed to a Rabbi Mosheh (as found in Leiden Or. 4779, et al)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation), Mosheh ben Yaaqov ibn Ezra

This prayer for divine contemplatives, beginning with the incipit “Tefilat Lisgulat Ishim” (prayer for distinguished individuals), is attested in several manuscripts prefaced by the title, תפלת הרב רבינו משה זצ״ל (prayer of our teacher, Rabbi Mosheh, may their righteousness be remembered for a blessing). The assumption of earlier scholars was that the Rabbi Mosheh here refers to Rabbi Mosheh ben Maimon — Maimonides (1138-1204). While our reading of the prayer finds nothing outside the concepts articulated by Rambam in his Mishneh Torah (Yesodei haTorah) and Moreh Nevukhim, it seems more likely that the Rabbi Mosheh referred to here is the famous paytan Mosheh ben Yaaqov ibn Ezra (ca. 1055-after 1138), who is quoted sharing similar ideas as found in this prayer by Rabbi Abraham ben Azriel in Arugat ha-Bosem (ca. 1230). Transcribed from the manuscript Leiden Or. 4779, this is the first time this obscure and long overlooked prayer has been translated. . . .