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little they book that is in an ethical special sense.
Harvests of moral proverbs as her "Choice of Pearls,"
attributed to Ibn Gebirol and the "the Philosophers' Mottos" from
Charizi, was the great favoriteses in the Centuries Averages. They had a separate
enchantments, but they was not original. They was both compilations from
the oldest books or translations directed by the Arab. It was otherwise far
with the ethical job the "Heart Duties" it entitled (have-Lebaboth_ of _Choboth),
from Bachya Ibn Pekuda (approximately 1050-1100). This was as original as it was
forced. Bachya founded his/her ethical system on the Talmud and on the
philosophical notions current in his/her day, but he evolved out of these
elements an original perspective of the life. The inside duties dictated from
conscience had put above all the conventional morality. Probed of Bachya the
a lot of heart of religion. Its soul was filled with God and this
communion, despite the feelings of ascetic that produced it was
Bachya a joy that exceeds. Its book thrills the reader with the author
just punished enthusiasm. The "Heart Duties" of Bachyas are more anymore the
inhaled book written by a Hebrew in the Centuries Averages.
Partly worthy of a place from the side of the essay of Bachya is an ethical
book writing in the Rhinelands during the thirteenth century. "The Book
of the Pious one" (have-Chassidim_ of _Sefer) it is mystical, and in progress of time
superstitious elements were interpolated. Attributed wrongly to an individual
writer, Judah Chassid the "Book of the Pious one" it was the really combined
product of the Jewish spirit in the thirteenth century. It is a
you conglomerate some sublime and the banal one, the purely ethical one with the
ceremonial. With this popular and extraordinary book you/he/she can be in partnership
other conglomerates of the ritual, the ethical one and the mystical one as the
_Rokeach_ of Eleazar of Worms.
A simpler but equally popular job was the "Examination of Yedaiah Bedaressi
of the World" (_Bechinath Olam_), written in about the year 1310. His/her