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ha-Levi, Judah (c. 1080–1140)

Spanish poet, philosopher, and physician. Over 1,100 of his poems survive, 800 of which are secular and 300 religious. His religious verses are still used as prayers by Jewish congregations. He wrote a defence of Judaism, Sefer ha-Kuzari/The Book of the Khazar.

He was born in Toledo, in the kingdom of Castile. According to tradition, he met his death while undertaking a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.



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Moreover, although the medieval poet and philosopher Judah Ha-Levi (1085-1141) proposed what we would categorize as a racial theory to explain the historic anomalies of Jewish national survival and distinctiveness, his theory cannot be considered racist, in the sense of asserting that the Jews should conquer or dominate other groups.
The concept of the chosen people: an interpretation by Jospe, Raphael / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
This views harks back to Judah Ha-Levi, who, when chided by the Khazar king about the remarkable promises of Christianity in the hereafter, retorted sarcastically: "None of them are realized until after death.
Rationales for the omission of eschatology in the Bible by Rosenbloom, Noah H. / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
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