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43: 992:), and Jewish tradition. He stressed the willingness and the joyful readiness of the God-loving heart to perform life's duties. He wrote, "It is impossible to think that the nations would recognize us as being wise and understanding if we were not to provide infallible proofs and explanations for the truths of the Torah and our faith." Many Jewish writers familiar with his work consider him an original thinker of high rank. According to 984:, "the duties to be performed by the parts of the body" ("Hovot HaEvarim"), without regard to the inner ideas and sentiments that should be embodied in the Jewish way of life, "the duties of the heart" ("Hovot HaLev"). He also felt that many disregarded all duties incumbent upon them, whether outward observances or inner moral obligations. 1002:
Bahya combined in a rare degree great depth of emotion, a vivid poetic imagination, the power of eloquence, and beauty of diction with a penetrating intellect; and he was therefore well fitted to write a work the main object of which was not to argue about and defend the doctrines of Judaism, but to
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Bahya, inclined to contemplative mysticism and asceticism, eliminated from his system every element that he felt might obscure monotheism or interfere with halakha. He wanted to present a religious system that was at once lofty and pure and in full accord with reason.
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In his view, most people acted according to selfish, worldly motives. Bahya, therefore, felt compelled to attempt to present the Jewish faith as a great spiritual truth founded on reason, revelation (especially regarding the
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The Book of Direction to the Duties of the Heart, from the Original Arabic Version of Bahya Ben Joseph Ibn Pakuda's al-Hidaya ila Fara'id al-Qulub by Menahem Mansoor (the only English translation from the original
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and philosophical and scientific Arabic, Greek, and Roman literature, frequently quoting from the works of non-Jewish moral philosophers in his work.
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became a popular book among the Jews worldwide, and parts of it were once recited for devotional purposes during the days before
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nor subsequent rabbis adequately brought all the ethical teachings of Judaism into a coherent system.
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A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's "Duties of the Heart"
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A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart
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Interiority and Law: Bahya ibn Paquda and the Concept of Inner Commandments,
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Ibn Paquda's works inspired and shaped many later Jewish writers, including
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Bahya felt that many Jews paid attention only to the outward observance of
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Duties of the Heart / Chovot HaLevavot - free complete English translation
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appeal to the sentiments and to stir and elevate the hearts of the people.
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Little is known of his life except that he bore the title of
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He often followed the method of the anonymously-authored "
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Index

Bahya ben Asher
Jewish philosophy
Guide for the Perplexed
Hellenistic
Hasmonean
Sadducean
Pharisee
Boethusian
Aristobulus of Alexandria
Philo of Alexandria
Medieval
Brethren of Purity
Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
Ismaili philosophy
Jewish Kalam
Kabbalah
Rabbinic Judaism
Hasdai ibn Shaprut
Ibn Gabirol
Abraham bar Hiyya
Bahya ibn Paquda
Judah Halevi
Abraham ibn Daud
Joseph ibn Tzaddik
Abraham ibn Ezra
Maimonides
Nachmanides
Samuel ibn Tibbon
Joseph ben Judah
Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera

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