Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi
Yehudah haLevi (also Judah ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה הלוי and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi יהודה בן שמואל הלוי; Arabic: يهوذا اللاوي; c. 1075 – 1141) was a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher. He was born in Spain, either in Toledo or Tudela, in 1075 or 1086, and died shortly after arriving in the Holy Land in 1141, at that point the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Yehudah haLevi is considered one of the greatest Hebrew poets, celebrated both for his religious and secular poems, many of which appear in present-day liturgy. His greatest philosophical work was The Kuzari.
Rosh Ḥodesh Av (אָב) | Morning Baqashot | Motsaei Shabbat | Parashat b'Shalaḥ | Parashat Éqev | Parashat va'Etḥanan | Parashat Yitro | 7th Day of Pesaḥ | Purim | Purim Qatan | Se'udah haShlishit | Seudat Leil Shabbat | Se'udat Yom Shabbat | Shavuot | Shirat ha-Yam | Shiv'ah Asar b'Tamuz | 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim) | Tishah b'Av | Well-being, health, and caregiving | Yom Kippur | Yom Kippur Qatan
acrostic | Acrostic signature | phonetic alphabetic acrostic translation | אהבה רבה ahavah rabbah | על אהבתך Al Ahavatekha | alienation | Alphabetic Acrostic | אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka | blessings following the shema | brit milah | Decalogue | dveykut | English vernacular prayer | German Jewry | German translation | German vernacular prayer | Jewish Women's Prayers | Light | מגילת אסתר Megillat Esther | מאורה meorah | משיח Moshiaḥ | muwassaha | Nusaḥ Sefaradi | paraliturgical neïlah | phonetic acrostic translation | פיוטים piyyuṭim | prayers of health care workers | Prayers of Primary Caregivers | professional intention | קריעת ים סוף qriyat yam suf | רשויות reshuyot | rhyming translation | שבת דברי Shabbat Divrei | שבת חזון Shabbat Ḥazon | שבת מבורכים shabbat mevorkhim | שבת שמעו Shabbat Shim'u | שבת שירה shabbat shirah | שבת זכור Shabbat Zakhor | תפלין tefillin | תחינות teḥinot | the River Sambatyon | Three Weeks of Mourning | Yom Vayosha | יוצרות yotsrot | זמירות zemirot | זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah | 11th century C.E. | 12th century C.E. | 19th century C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 49th century A.M. | 56th century A.M. | 57th century A.M.
the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription) | Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) | Yehoshua Heshil Miro | Franz Rosenzweig (translation) | Andreas Rusterholz (transcription) | Nina Davis Salaman (translation) | Herman Prins Salomon (translation) | Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Levi Weiman-Kelman (translation)
Contributed by: Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi
An original rhyming translation of the ahavah piyyut for Shabbat ‘Éqev, a poem by Yehuda haLevi that discusses the halakhot of making and wearing tefillin in honor of the fact that tefillin are mentioned in the parashah.

