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"We can still learn much from Judah Halevi... his serene allegiance to history and the long-range forces of destiny, high above the immediate brute realities and implacable forces of nature." --Salo Baron"In defending Judaism... against the philosophers, he was conscious of defending morality itself and therewith the cause, not only of Judaism, but of mankind at large." --Leo Strauss "The Kuzari" is a classic work of Jewish philosophy, written in 1140 by celebrated Jewish poet and philosopher Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi . His goal was to defend Judaism against attacks from philosophers, Christian and Muslim theologians, and Karaites (Jewish sectarians).The book, composed of five sections, takes the form of a dialogue between the pagan king of the Khazars and a Jewish scholar who was invited to instruct him in the tenets of the Jewish religion. It is loosely based on the true story of the conversion of the Khazar royalty and aristocracy to Judaism in the 8th century.Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi wrote his magnum opus in Judeo-Arabic - the Arabic dialect spoken by Jews living in the Arab world, written with Hebrew letters. Judeo-Arabic was used for all types of Jewish religious writings, from before Saadiah Gaon until after Maimonides (approximately the 8th century to the end of the 13th century). This English translation is based on Rabbi Yitzhak Shilat\'s translation into Hebrew, Sefer Ha-Kuzari: Precise Hebrew Translation in the Style of the Period of Its Composition. About the Author: Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi , the celebrated Hebrew poet and philosopher, was born in northern Spain in 1075. While he chose medicine as his profession, early on he evinced a love for poetry and showed marked poetic talent. Yet the muse spoke to him in the old and sacred language of the Bible, in which "he sang for all times and places, soon becoming the favorite of the people." Although personally he occupied an honored position as a physician, he felt the intolerance of the Almoravid fanatics toward his coreligionists. He had long yearned for a new, or rather for the old, home - the Holy Land. This yearning was deepened by his intense application to his religious-philosophical work, The Kuzari , and by his resulting clearer insight into Judaism. At length he decided to set out on a journey to the Land of Israel. For himself at least, he wished "to do away with the contradiction of daily confessing a longing and of never attempting to realize it." Thus, he bade farewell to daughter, grandson, pupils, friends, rank, and affluence. There was only one image in his heart - Jerusalem. In 1141, Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi boarded a ship in the Alexandria harbor to complete the last leg of his journey to the Land of Israel. At this point, authentic records fail. It is nearly certain that the ship completed its ten-day voyage to the coast of the Holy Land. A letter found in the Cairo Genizah mentions that the poet had died soon after this, during the summer of 1141. We do not know the circumstances of his death. Jewish legend relates that as he approached Jerusalem, overpowered by the sight of the Holy City, he sang his most beautiful elegy, the celebrated "Zion ha-lo Tish\'ali." At that instant, he was ridden down and killed by an Arab horseman, who dashed forth from a city gate.