Quotes from book
Kuzari

Name: Kuzari
Author: Judah Halevi

The Kuzari, full title The Book of Proof and Evidence in Support of the Abased Religion , also known as the Book of the Kuzari, is one of the most famous works of the medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet Judah Halevi, completed around 1140. Originally written in Arabic, it was then translated into Hebrew and is regarded as one the most important apologetic works of Jewish philosophy.

“According to our view a servant of God is not one who detaches himself from the world, lest he be a burden to it, and it to him; or hates life, which is one of God's bounties granted to him.”

Judah Halevi book Kuzari

Part Three
Kuzari (1140)

“Divine Providence only gives man as much as he is prepared to receive; if his receptive capacity be small, he obtains little, and much if it be great.”

Judah Halevi book Kuzari

Part Two
Kuzari (1140)

“As regards the Sādōcaeans and Boēthosians, they are the sectarians who are anathemised in our prayer. The followers of Jesus are "the Baptists" who adopted the doctrine of baptism, being baptized in the Jordan."”

Judah Halevi book Kuzari

Part Three, "the Baptists" refers to the word meshumadim in the jewish prayer, followed by the words "will have no hope", the hebrew word can be explained in other ways
Kuzari (1140)

“Thou must not deem it improbable that exalted divine traces should be visible in this material world, when this matter is prepared to receive them. Here are to be found the roots of faith as well as of unbelief”

Judah Halevi book Kuzari

Part One
Kuzari (1140)

“This means that Jerusalem can only be rebuilt when Israel yearns for it to such an extent that they embrace her stones and dust.”

Judah Halevi book Kuzari

Part Five
Kuzari (1140)

“Thy way of thinking is indeed pleasing to the Creator, but not thy way of acting”

Judah Halevi book Kuzari

Part One
Kuzari (1140)

“The pious man is nothing but a prince who is obeyed by his senses, and by his mental as well as his physical faculties”

Judah Halevi book Kuzari

Part Three
Kuzari (1140)