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Meditation of the Sad Soul

work by Abraham bar Hiyya

Also known as: “Hegyon ha-Nefesh ha-Azuva”

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…treatise Hegyon ha-Nefesh ha-Aẓuva (Meditation of the Sad Soul), which dealt with the nature of good and evil, ethical conduct, and repentance; and Megillat ha-Megalleh (“Scroll of the Revealer”), in which he outlined his view of history, based on astrology and purporting to forecast the messianic future.
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