Shekel HaKodesh

Shekel HaKodesh

Rabbi

Yosef Kimchi



The book Shekel HaKodesh is about the principles of the Jewish faith, the rabbi explains his words philosophically in a poetic and picturesque way. This book is a moral book and talks about Modesty Independence.

Yosef Kimhi [1105-1170] [Hebrew: ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿] was a medieval Jewish rabbi and biblical commentator. He was the father of Moses and David Kimhi, and the teacher of Rabbi Menachem Ben Simeon and poet Joseph Zabara.

Grammarian, exegete, poet, and translator; born in southern Spain about 1105; died about 1170. Forced to leave his native country owing to the religious persecutions of the Almohades, who invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 1146, he settled in Narbonne, Provence, where he spent the rest of his life. The Hachmei Provence were under the considerable influence of the neighboring Spanish Jewish community to the south at the time.

His son David, though but a child at the time of his father's death, may also be considered one of his pupils, either directly through his works, or indirectly through the instruction David received from his elder brother Moses.