Conclusion Of The Book : CONCLUSION OF THE BOOK 21. This and similar subjects afford proper points for research, comprising as they do the character of the divine decrees concerning man, as intimated in the prophetic words: 'He visits the sin of the fathers on the children... of his enemies... and showing mercy un...
Title Page : JUDAH HALLEVI'S KITAB AL KHAZARI, TRANSLATED FROM THE ARABIC BY HARTWIG HIRSCHFELD New York, E. P. Dutton [1905] Scanned , March 2006. Proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain because it was published prior to January 1st, 1923. These files may be used for any...
Part Two : p. 82 PART TWO 1. AFTER this the Khazari, as is related in the history of the Khazars, was anxious to reveal to his Vezier in the mountains of Warsn the secret of his dream and its repetition, in which he was urged to seek the God-pleasing deed. The king and his Vezier travelled to the deserted...
Part Four : p. 198 PART FOUR 1. THE Rabbi: ELHIM is a term signifying the ruler, or governor of the world, if I allude to the possession of the whole of it, and of a portion, if I refer to the powers either of nature or the spheres, or of a human judge. The word has a plural form, because it was so used by...
Part Five : p. 248 PART FIVE 1. AL KHAZARI: I must trouble thee to give me a clear and concise discourse on religious principles and axioms according to the method of the Mutakallims. Let me hear them exactly as thou didst study them, that I may accept or refute them. Since I have not been granted a perfect...
Part Three : p. 135 PART THREE THE RABBI: According to our view a servant of God is not one who detaches himself from the world, lest he be a burden to it, and it to him; or hates life, which is one of God's bounties granted to him, as it is written: 'The number of thy days I will fulfil'; 'Thou shalt live...
Untitled : JUDAH HALLEVI'S KITAB AL KHAZARI TRANSLATED BY HARTWIG HIRSCHFELD [1905] Framed as a dialog between the king of the Khazars, a Central Asian kingdom, and a Rabbi, the Khazari is an exposition of late medieval Jewish philosophy. Legend has it that the king of the Khazars held a symposium to decide...
Part One : p. 35 THE BOOK AL KHAZARI PART ONE I WAS asked to state what arguments and replies I could bring to bear against the attacks of philosophers and followers of other religions, and also against [Jewish] sectarians who attacked the rest of Israel. This reminded me of something I had once heard...