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IBN PAQUDA BARYA

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 214 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IBN PAQUDA BARYA  , a Jewish ethical writer who flourished at Saragossa in the 11th century . In 1040 he wrote in Arabic a
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treatise, Duties of the Heart . This
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book was one of the most significant and influential Jewish
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works of the
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middle ages . Bahya portrays an intensely spiritual conception of religion, and rises at times to
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great heights of impassioned mysticism . 1 Including
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Miss Tinne's
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mother and aunt and Dr Steudne,r . The Law, in the rabbinical sense, was reverenced by Bahya, and he converted it into
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part and parcel of the Jew's inner
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life . The book is divided into ten parts: the Unity of
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God; Contemplation; Worship;
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Trust; Consecration; Humility; Repentance; Self-Examination; the Ascetic Life; the Love of God . Some selections from Bal ya's
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work have been rendered into
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English by E . Collins . (I .

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