Chovot HaLevavot

About This Book

Chovot HaLevavot, known in English as The Duties of the Hearts, is the primary work of the Jewish scholar Bahya ibn Paquda, a rabbi believed to have lived in the taifa of Zaragoza in al-Andalus in the eleventh century. It was written in Judeo-Arabic c. 1080 CE and translated into Hebrew by Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon during 1161–1180 as Torat Chovot HaLevavot. There was another contemporary translation by Joseph Kimhi, but its complete text did not endure time. In 1973, Yosef Qafih published his Hebrew translation from the original Judeo-Arabic, the latter appearing beside his Hebrew translation.

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