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See also:IBN PAQUDA See also:BARYA , a Jewish ethical writer who flourished at See also:Saragossa in the 11th See also:century . In 1040 he wrote in Arabic a See also:treatise, Duties of the See also:Heart . This See also:book was one of the most significant and influential Jewish See also:works of the See also:middle ages . Bahya portrays an intensely spiritual conception of See also:religion, and rises at times to See also:great heights of impassioned See also:mysticism . 1 Including See also:Miss Tinne's See also:mother and aunt and Dr Steudne,r . The See also:Law, in the rabbinical sense, was reverenced by Bahya, and he converted it into See also:part and See also:parcel of the See also:Jew's inner See also:life . The book is divided into ten parts: the Unity of See also:God; Contemplation; See also:Worship; See also:Trust; See also:Consecration; Humility; Repentance; Self-Examination; the Ascetic Life; the Love of God . Some selections from Bal ya's See also:work have been rendered into See also:English by E . See also:Collins . (I . |
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