See also:

• JUDAH

JUDAH See also:

• BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

BEN See also:

• SAMUEL

SAMUEL See also:

• JUDAH BEN SAMUEL HALEVI (c. 1o85-c. 1140)

HALEVI (c. 1o85-c. 1140)  , the greatest See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew poet of the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• TOLEDO
• TOLEDO, COUNCILS OF (Concilia toletana)

Toledo c . 1085, and died in See also:

• PALESTINE

Palestine after 1140 . In his youth he wrote Hebrew love poems of exquisite See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy, and several of his See also:

• WEDDING

Wedding Odes are included in the See also:

• LITURGY (Low Lat. liturgia; Gr. X€Zros, public, and Epyov, work; )Aetrovpy6s, a public servant)

liturgy of the See also:

• SYNAGOGUE (avvaywyii)
• SYNAGOGUE, UNITED

Synagogue . The mystical connexion between marital See also:

• AFFECTION (Lat. ad, and facere, to do something to, sc. a person)

affection and the love of See also:

• GOD

God had, in the view of older exegesis, already expressed itself in the scriptural See also:

• SONG

Song of Songs and See also:

• JUDAH

Judah See also:

• HALEVI, JUDAH BEN SAMUEL (c. 1o85-c. 1140)

Halevi used this See also:

• BOOK

book as his See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model . In this aspect of his See also:

• WORK

work he found See also:

• INSPIRATION (Lat. inspirare, breathe upon or into)

inspiration also in Arabic predecessors . The second See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of his See also:

• LITERARY

literary career was devoted to more serious pursuits . He wrote a philosophical See also:

• DIALOGUE

dialogue in five books, called the Cuzari, which has been translated into See also:

• ENGLISH

English by Hirschfeld . This book bases itself on the See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical fact that the See also:

• CRIMEAN

Crimean See also:

• KINGDOM

Kingdom of the See also:

• KHAZARS (known also as Chozars, as 'Aal r?'rpor or X6 apor in Byzantine writers, as Khazirs in Armenian and Khwalisses in Russian chronicles, and Ugri Bielii in Nestor)

Khazars adopted Judaism, and the Hebrew poet-philosopher describes what he conceives to be the steps by which the Khazar See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king satisfied himself as to the claims of Judaism . Like many other See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval Jewish authors, Judah Halevi was a physician . His real fame depends on his liturgical See also:

• HYMNS

hymns, which are the finest written in Hebrew since the Psalter, and are extensively used in the Septardic rite . A striking feature of his thought was his devotion to See also:

• JERUSALEM (Heb. ^S0-r, Yerushalaim, pronounced as a dual)
• JERUSALEM, SYNOD OF (1672)

Jerusalem . To the love of the See also:

• HOLY

Holy See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City he devoted his noblest See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius, and he wrote some memorable Odes to See also:

• ZION, or SION (Heb. iiag, perhaps from runs " to be dry," nqs " to set up," or is " to protect "; Arabic analogies favour the meaning " hump," " summit of a ridge," and so " citadel ")

Zion, which have been commemorated by See also:

• HEINE, HEINRICH, (1797-1856)

Heine, and doubly appreciated recently under the impulse of See also:

• ZIONISM

Zionism (q.v.) .

He started for Jerusalem, was in See also:

• DAMASCUS

Damascus in 1140, and soon afterwards died . See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

Legend has it that he was slain by an Arab horseman just as he arrived within sight of what Heine called his " Woebegone poor See also:

• DARLING
• DARLING, GRACE HORSLEY (1815-1842)

darling, Desolation's very See also:

• IMAGE (Lat. imago, perhaps from the same root as imitari, copy, imitate)

image, Jerusalem." Excellent English renderings of some of Judah Halevi's poems may be read in Mrs H . See also:

• LUCAS, CHARLES (1713–1771)
• LUCAS, JOHN SEYMOUR (1849– )
• LUCAS, SIR CHARLES (d. 1648)

Lucas's The Jewish See also:

• YEAR

Year, and Mrs R . N . See also:

• SOLOMON, ODES OF
• SOLOMON, PSALMS OF

Solomon's Songs of See also:

• EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

Exile . (I .