Ibn Gabirol

Fons Vitae

Válogatott gyöngyök, gyüjtemény a népek irodalmából

bi-melitsat ha-ḥakhamim ha-ḳadmonim u-mishle ha-filosofim...

Mivḥar ha-peninim

Ex codicibus Parisinis, Amploniano, Columbino

Avencebrolis (Ibn Gebirol) Fons vitae ex arabico in latinum translat suab Iohanne Hispano et Dominico Gundissalino

Embracing a Collection of the Most Genuine Ethical Sentences, Maxims and Salutary Reflections

A Choice of Pearls

David R. Slavitt

The Royal Crown (or, "A Crown for the King" in Slavitt's translation) is the greatest of Gabirol's poems. Its theme is the problem of the human predicament: the frailty of man and his proclivity to sin, in tension with a benign providence that must leave room for the operation of man's free will and also make available to him the means of penitence. The Royal Crown is still printed in prayerbooks of the Sephardic rite for the Day of Atonement, and among North African Jewish communities (and their offshoots in Israel and elsewhere) it is read communally before the morning service of the Day. In northern Europe and the West this custom has lapsed, however the Royal Crown is still used for private penitential reading.

A Crown for the King

Ibn Gabirol

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