Solomon Ibn Gabirol: 5 books

Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol by Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill A key medieval Jewish Spanish poet and philosopher's devotional poetry, some of which was adopted into liturgy. "Solomon ibn Gabirol (b. 1021, d. ca. 1058) was a Jewish Neoplatonist philosopher...

The Fountain of Life by Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Harry E. Wedeck An extract from the Jewish writer Solomon ibn Gabirol's philosophical treatise on the First Cause "Solomon ibn Gabirol, also known as Avicebron, was a Spanish-Jewish poet and philosopher of the eleventh century....

"Vulture in a cage," Solomon Ibn Gabirol's own self-description, is an apt image for a poet who was obsessed with the impediments posed by the body and the material world to the realization of his spiritual ambition of elevating his soul to the empyrean. Ibn Gabirol's poetry is enormously...

The Fons Vitae of Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021-1058/70) is essentially an eleventh century attempt to present the first part of wisdom as the source of life for the intellectually oriented Jews of the Western world. As such it suffered almost complete sterility right from the start. Written in Arabic, it...

A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...