Torah scholar, poet, physician, and philosopher, Rabbi Yehudah ha Levy was a renaissance man centuries before the Renaissance. Independently wealthy and enjoying comfort and tolerance in Spain in its Golden Age, he nonetheless yearned for the Holy Land. From his family life to his treacherous journeys through the Middle East, Rabbi Wein portrays the triumphs, sorrows, and achievements of this father of Spanish Jewry.

• the historical backdrop of Spain’s Golden Age
• Reb Yehuda Halevy in the yeshiva at Lucena
• his friendship with the ibn Ezra
• his storm-tossed boat trip to the Holy Land
• the dramatic legends surrounding his death