Judah Halevi

“One of the greatest Hebrew poets, Judah ha-Levi was also an anti-rationalist. His chief work, {{W|Kuzari|The Book of the Khazars}}, was a dialogue in defense of Judaism, attempting to show the superiority of {{W|revealed religion}} to reasoned truth. He pointed out the dependence of Christianity and Islam upon Judaism; he regarded the {{W|Jews}} as possessed of a unique religious sense and Palestine as an unequalled region.”

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

“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."”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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"”