Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings Holidays guiding us in our behavior

guiding us in our behavior and inner attitudes

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while not losing the clarity and rigor characteristic of analytic philosophy

Going beyond merely taking a “day of rest” from technology

Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings Holidays guiding us in our behaviorasdai Crescas spent his life in public service as a rabbi and community leader in desperate times in 14th century Spain. Despite having limited time for writing, he produced several important works, which Collected Writings presents in their entirety. The first of these, Epistle to the Jews of Avignon, he wrote in the immediate aftermath of the anti Jewish riots in Aragon in 1391, chronicling the unimaginable horrors the Jewish communities endured