The Spanish Hebrew poet and religious thinker Judah Halevi (ca. 1085-ca. 1150) taught that God had revealed Himself primarily through the people of Israel. Few definite facts are known about Judah Halevi. He was born in Toledo, Castile, to a family of...

Halevi, Yehuda(C. 1075 in Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion, Vol. 2, edited by Isadore Twersky and George H. Williams (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,...

(1075–1141) Spanish poet and philosopher. Judah Halevy was a prolific poet and about eight hundred examples of his work survive. His Sefer ha-Kuzari is a philosophic work based on the legend of the King of the Khazars who invited an Aristotelian...

YEHUDAH HA-LEVI (c. 1075–1141), Jewish poet, theologian, and physician. Born in either Tudela or Toledo, Spain, to a wealthy and cultured family, Yehudah ben Shemuʾel ha-Levi was well educated. He studied the Bible, rabbinic literature,...

Yehuda Halevi, in full Yehuda ben Shemuel Ha-Levi, also Judah ha-Levi, or Judah ben Samuel Halevi (Hebrew: יהודה הלוי) (c.1075–1141) was a Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet. He was born in Tudela, Navarre,...