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• IBN PAQUDA BARYA

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