"I asked about a Hasid, not a ruler": The Hasid as a ruler in the poetry of Rabbi Judah Halevi

Ephraim Hazan

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Abstract

Earlier scholars of medieval Jewish poetry and philosophy found links between the Rabbi Judah Halevi's (= Rihal) philosophy and his poetry, and between his poetry and the philosophy of his generation. It is not for nothing that Franz Rosenzweig was interested in the Rihal's poetry; other scholars also turned to the philosophical analysis of various poems of Rihal, comparing the poetry with the philosophy found therein. In my book Poetry in the Sephardic Piyyut in Light of the Liturgical Poetry of Rihal, I showed that various subjects in the Book of Kuzari help us understand his poetry and poetics. In this paper I will examine several of the Rihal's poems in light of the extensive descriptions of the behavior of the hasid in the first paragraphs of chapter 3 of the Kuzari.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationStudies in Medieval Jewish Poetry
Subtitle of host publicationA Message upon the Garden
EditorsHara Tirosh-Samuelson, Giuseppe Veltri
PublisherBrill Academic Publishers
Pages247-255
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9789004169319
StatePublished - 2009

Publication series

NameStudies in Jewish History and Culture
Volume18
ISSN (Print)1568-5004

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