Today we’ll find out about the Golden Age Andalusian Yehuda Halevi, the poet, physician, and metaphysician who died trying to get to Jerusalem, and the sweet and dirty street named for him.

Book: The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492.

Music:

“Slaves of Time,” composed and performed by Etti Ankri

Mi Yitneni [If only I could be] composed and performed by Etti Ankri