See also: Halevi

Rabbi Yehuda Ben Shmuel haLévi, Rabbi, philosopher, Doctor and Poet Séfarade of genius , born with Tudela in Navarre in 1085, called the Cantor of Sion . Author of the Kuzari , It leaves eight hundred poems, of which the Odes in Sion .

Biography

Very young person, it course the Spain in prey with the wars between Christians and Almoravides. It goes down to the Pays from Al-Andalûs in order to supplement its studies there. It gains a competition of poetry to Cordoue, then meets with Grenade the poets séfarades Moïse ibn Ezra and Abraham ibn Ezra, with which it will be dependant its life during.

Persecutions of the almoravides disperse the poets of Grenade. Juda Halevi takes again its voyages, goes near the Jewish vizier Meir ibn Kamniel to Seville and of the Master talmudic Joseph ibn Migash to Lucène. It practices medicine with Tolède, then become again Christian, that it leaves in 1109 with his friend Abraham ibn Ezra. They then continue their voyages through Moslem Spain (Cordoue) and North Africa.

Partisan of the return to Sion, Juda Halevi arrives at Alexandria, then with the Cairo where he dies in 1140 before to have been able to embark for the Palestine, other versions make it die in the doors of Jerusalem assassinated by a Ismaélien.

Work

Aggravated by the attraction that exert Christianisme, Islam and Philosophie until the center of the Juif people, it writes towards 1135, at the end of its life its large-work, the Kitab alhuyya wa-l-dalil fi nusr Aldine Al-dalil , in French, " the Book of the argumentation for the defense of the religion méprisée" , more known under the name than gave him its translator Samuel ibn Tibbon, the Kuzari in answer to the questions of a Karaïte will say it, taking as a starting point the conversion to the Judaism of the king of Khazars and his people four centuries before.

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