Capitolo 45
And the unction of God manufactured them more than the kings.
Its goodness made the molt to speak its name,
Yea, stubborn hearts were not from very rigid;
It is bards the starry shine of his/her fame
Mirrored in current shining of their song.
This Chasdai, the child of Isaac of the family of Shaprut (915-970), it was
a physician and a man of state. He was anything of a poet and linguist
besides; not very of a poet, for his/her praisers says few of his/her verses;
and not very of a linguist, for him it assumed others (among them Menachem,
the child of Zaruk, the grammarian) to write his/her Israelite letters for him.
But he was enough of a researcher to appreciate to learn in others, and as
a patron of the literature he put on in front of the new Hebrew
I develop in Spain. From Babylon he was greeted as the head of the
school in Cordova. To his/her abode building everybody that was best was gathered
in the Spanish Judaism. He was the patron of the two great grammarians of
the day, Menachem, the child of Zaruk and his/her competitor and critical, Dunash,
the child of Labrat. These grammarians fought out their literary disputes
in verses devoted to Chasdai. Witty satires were written by the
friends of both the sides. Sparkling epigrams had exchanged in the
pink-garden of the house of Chasdai, and you/he/she was read to the reunions in the evening
of poets, dealers and courtiers. It was Chasdai that brought both the
competing to Cordova, Menachem from Tortosa and Dunash from Fez. Menachem
it was the founder of the Israelite and scientific grammar; Dunash, more vivacious but
less scholar, began the art to write Israelite verses metrical. The
successors of these grammarians, Judah Chayuj and Abulwalid Merwan Ibn
Janach (eleventh century), it completed what you/they had started Menachem and Dunash,
and it put the Israelite philology on a scientific and fixed base.
With Chasdai a was literary and new it dawned so, for the Judaism. His/her person,
his/her glorious position, his/her liberal encouragement of poetry and learning,
opened the lips seal-in increase of the Israelite muse. As a contemporary said of