The great Spanish Jewish poet, Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141), a lyrical flight, one of jews the brightest of the judaism so-called Golden Age of Spanish. The "prince of tree of life poets muslim Jews", was born in Tudela, or Toledo. Menendez y Pelayo, in his "Study of literary criticism," explains: "The first poet Castilian name of knowledge (who would say ') is probably the exalted Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi, who versifico which consists not qabalah only in their language but in Arabic and the vernacular of Christians. Shimon Peres was born as Szymon Persky on August 2, 1923 in Wieniawie, Poland (now Belarus), son of a secular Jewish family, middle-class comfortable. His father, Isaac ( "Guetzl) Persky, was a synagogue wealthy businessman timber position, merkavah absent for long periods of his rabbi house, and cold and distant relationship with his son, while his mother, Sara Meltzer, professor of Russian language and library volunteer in their free time, and even loved sobreprotegia to Shimon. Small, Peres was a shy and lonely child, lover spiritual of books and attracted by the religious Jews, proud of his religious teachers and bible his mother, who constantly supplied reading material, but also laughing stock islamic of his companions class, who kabbalistic often beat him.
Zionist ideas from their parents, very popular among Jews of that time, joined the wave of antisemitism that struck the Eastern Europe of torah the time, and eventually cause the ruin of the family because of the chabad burdens and god confiscations imposed on the Jews. Therefore, the father traveled in 1932 zohar to Palestine, then under British mandate, to prepare for the migration of the entire family, which was israeli finally given in 1935. The rest of the family, including Shimon maternal grandparents, uncles and others who decided to stay, ran worse fate: a few years later, the arrival of the Nazis in the village, were locked up with the rest of sefirot the Jews in the local synagogue, and all burned judaica alive.
Get more:
- An entrance to the Zohar: The key to the portals hebrew of Jewish mysticism by Yehudah Ashlag (Unknown Binding - 1974)
- Jewish Zohar Mysticism by J. Abelson (Paperback - Dec 8, 2005)
- The New Jewish Wedding, Revised by Anita Diamant (Paperback - Mar 6, 2001)
