Yehuda Halevi

Yehuda Halevi was born around 1075, in Tudela or in Toledo depending on the sources, in Muslim Spain. Trained in Hebrew, Arabic, the Talmud, medicine and philosophy, he became close to Moses ibn Ezra and practised medicine, in Toledo among other places. He wrote the Kuzari in Arabic, a dialogue in which a Khazar king questions the adherents of several religions. In 1140 he left for the East, was received in Alexandria, passed through Cairo and died in 1141, in Egypt or perhaps in the land of Israel; the legend that has him killed at the gates of Jerusalem arose centuries later.

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• PoetrySelected Poems of Jehudah HaleviשיריםYehuda Halevi · 1130LiteraturePublic domain