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Rabbi Yehudah Ha Levy wrote prolifically his entire life, and the varied themes of his poetry are a direct reflection of the many events that befell him. With a sampling of his work - the personal poems he wrote for his friends, the piyutim that are still included in our prayers, and the love poems he later repudiated, Rabbi Wein gives us a taste of the passion that stirred within this great soul.

• excerpts from 14 of his most famous poems
• poems as wedding gifts and other customs of Spanish Jewry
• the Sephardic tradition in prayer
• the influence of Shlomo ibn Gabirol
• how his poems reflect the changes he underwent in life