Capitolo 57
Spain, we come to a man on who the whole dictionary of encomium and
affection has been exhausted; a man of the magnetic attractiveness that
contemporaries and successors have agreed to admire and to love. Jehuda
Halevi was approximately born to Toledo 1085, the year in that Alfonso Vi
taken back the city from the Heaths. It was an appropriate birth-place for the
greater Jewish poet since durations of Bible. East and West he/she met him in Toledo. The
science of the east found Cristiano Occidentali to cultivate there it. Hebrew,
Moorings, and Cristiano visualized mutual tolerance that existed there
in any place other. In the mean of this favorable environment Jehuda Halevi
grown to the first maturity. As a boy he won more than the local fame as a
versifier. To all the festive occasions its verses were in demand. He wrote
you hate that get married, elegies on great men you praise of the living one. His/her love
poems, serenades, epigrams of this period, every taste of show, elegance,
and passion.
The second period of the literary career of Jehuda Halevi was devoted
serious searches, to thoughts on the life and to practical job. Him
written his/her philosophical and far-famous dialogue, the _Cuzari_ and it earned his
living as a physician. He was not an enthusiastic lover to medicine,
however. "Toledo is great", he wrote to a friend, "and my patients are
hard masters. Me, their slave footstep my days in to serve their wish, and
you consume my years in to recover their weakness." Before inventing a
prescription, him as Lord Thomas Browne, said a prayer in that
he confessed that he didn't have great faith in him the healthy powers of his
art. Jehuda Halevi, was displeased indeed together with his/her life.
"My heart is in the east, but I am sunk in the west", he complained. Him
it was unhappy because his/her beloved was away from him; its lady-love was
over the course of his/her serious fixed look. In the words oft-quoted of Heine,
You for that the Rabbi languished
It was a pain-begone dear poor man,
The a lot of image of devastation,