Moses Hayyim Luzzatto , 1707-47, Hebrew playwright, poet, and mystic, a leader of the renaissance of Hebrew literature, b. Padua. At 15 he formed a group to study kabbalistic mysteries (see kabbalah ) and at 17 he wrote Samson and Delilah, a drama in verse. He studied the mystic book Zohar closely and claimed divine revelation for his own works of mysticism, most of which did not survive rabbinic denunciation. He wrote of love with biblical lyricism in the Migdal 'Oz (1727). His finest work is the allegorical Glory to the Righteous (1743).
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Synagogues Without Jews: Walking the Streets of Italy
Forward; 10/8/2004; McBee, Richard; 1017 words;
... radicalized Jewish music in the 16th century, combining liturgy and polyphonic choral music, while in the 17th-century Moses Hayyim Luzzatto's "Derech haShem" explained Judaism with Enlightenment rationality and kabalistic sensitivity. The expatriate ...
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Jews and the World to Come
First Things; 6/1/2006; Sherwin, Byron L; 2152 words;
... Bahya's Duties of the Heart and Moses Hayyim Luzzatto's eighteenth-century Paths of ... literature about the afterlife, Luzzatto writes, "The purpose for which ... is the goal." For Ibn Pakudah, Luzzatto, and others, life in this world ...
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Jews and the world to come.
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 6/1/2006; Sherwin, Byron L.; 2144 words;
... Bahya's Duties of the Heart and Moses Hayyim Luzzatto's eighteenth-century Paths of ... literature about the afterlife, Luzzatto writes, The purpose for which ... is the goal. For Ibn Pakudah, Luzzatto, and others, life in this world ...
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Dr. Lowin on the wonders of Hebrew.(Book Review)
Midstream; 7/1/2005; Marblestone, Howard; 1960 words;
... centuries), the great Hebrew treatises of Moses Maimonides (12th century) the Shulchan ... Yesharim (The Pathway of the Upright) by Moses Hayyim Luzzatto (18th century), and the poetry of Hayyim Nachman Bialik (d. 1934). T. Carmi's The ...
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Making the Book of Radiance Sparkle
The Jerusalem Report; 3/8/2004; Michael Fagenblat; 1943 words;
... much so that an 18th-century Italian mystic, Rabbi Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, recommended the book on lyrical grounds alone, writing ... scholars, including Matt, suggest it was written by Moses de Leon, perhaps with contributions from a circle ...
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