Capitolo 46
Chasdai:
The joke of grinding from the neck of Israel he lacerated,
I lavish in his/her soul the love of his/her people that he was born.
The sword that has been thirsty for their blood him the grove,
And cold oppression melted for its cause.
For God the heart of the Chasdai Israele sent to stir
Once more to have trust, once more his/her God to love.
Chasdai didn't confine his/her efforts for his/her brothers to the
Hebrews of Spain. The ambition and understanding did him/it extend its affection to
the Hebrews of the whole world. He interviewed the captains of ships him,
conversed with envoys foreigners respect to the Hebrews of other earths. Him
entered a correspondence with the Chazars, adoption Hebrews not from
run. It is not amazing that the influence of Chasdai survived him/it.
Under the next two caliphs, Cordova continued the centre of a cultured
the life and the literature. There it assembled, not only the Chazars, but also the
descending of the Babylonian Principles of the Imprisonment and the other men of
note.
Half one century after the death of Chasdai, Sam Ibn Nagdela (993-1055)
state in front of the head of the Jewish community in Granada. Sam, called the
Nagid or Prince, the life started as a chemist to Malaga. His/her fine
writing by hand came to the notice of the vizier, and Sam was named
private secretary. Its talents as a man of state were open soon, and
he was done minister to Habus, the rule of Granada before. Once a Heath
insults him, and King Habus put to the current his/her favorite to cut the
offender's language. But Sam treated his/her reviler with a lot of gentleness,
and the King Habus of one day and Sam passed the same Heath. "He blesses her
now", says the surprised king "that he cursed."
"Ah!" Answered Sam, "I did as you put to the current one. I cut his angry
you touch with the language, and puts instead there a kind."
Not only Sam was vizier, he was also Rabbi. His/her knowledge of the
The literature of Rabbinical was deep, and his "Introduction to the Talmud"