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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.
Morning Baqashot | Motsei Shabbat | Parashat Yitro | Purim | Purim Qatan | Se'udah haShlishit | Se'udat Leil Shabbat | Se'udat Yom Shabbat | Shavuot | Well-being, health, and caregiving | Yom Kippur | Parashat va'Etḥanan | 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim)
acrostic | Acrostic signature | alienation | Alphabetic Acrostic | blessings following the shema | Decalogue | dveykut | German Jewry | German translation | German vernacular prayer | Jewish Women's Prayers | Light | muwassaha | paraliturgical neïlah | prayers of health care workers | professional intention | rhyming translation | the River Sambatyon | אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka | זמירות zemirot | מאורה meorah | מגילת אסתר Megillat Esther | משיח Moshiaḥ | על אהבתך Al Ahavatekha | פיוטים piyyuṭim | שבת זכור Shabbat Zakhor | תחינות teḥinot | 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 Lucas (translation) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) | 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)
רָאשֵׁי עָם עֵת הִתְאַסֵּף | When the chiefs of the people meet, a muwassaha poem by Yehudah haLevi (ca. early 12th c.)
Contributed by Herman Prins Salomon (translation) | Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi | ❧
“Roshei am et hitasef umlekhim b’sodam” by Yehuda Halevi was translated by Herman Prins Salomon in “Yehuda Halevi and his ‘Cid’” and published in The American Sepharadi (1978), pp. 22-46. . . .
