The Duties of the Heart
Bachye, Rabbi Ben Joseph Ibn
The Duties of the Heart is a classic of Jewish scholarship. It discusses how a person should express devotion to God, and how the divinity bestows the finest virtues to humankind.
The author endeavors to define the God-given qualities of man, these, used correctly, represent a fulfillment of duty to the divine. Principally he identifies the intellect as a means of honoring the heavens, intelligent thought directed to useful, fulfilling and vir...