Bahya ibn PaqudaБахья ибн Пакуда
1 passageотрывков: 1
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
6. Сущность любви к богу состоит в стремлении души и влечении ее к создателю, чтобы слиться с его высшим светом.
6. The essence of love for God lies in the soul’s striving and its attraction toward the Creator, so as to merge with his supreme light.
The Talmud [Bahya ibn Paquda].
From Duties of the Heart · close to the original (more).
Original · Hebrewאבל מה ענין האהבה באלהים, הוא כלות הנפש ונטותה בעצמה אל הבורא כדי שתדבק באורו העליון
Source text: sefaria.orgTolstoy’s own version · Мысли мудрых людей на каждый деньСущность любви к богу состоит в стремлении души и влечении ее к создателю, чтобы слиться с его высшим светом.
Source text: tolstoy.ruDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Duties of the Heart (Hovot ha-Levavot), Gate X, On the Love of God, Gate X, ch. 1, the opening definition (Sefaria: Tenth Treatise on Devotion to God 1:1); Thoughts of Wise Men (1903), 22 January.
The definition that opens the first chapter of Bahya ibn Paquda's gate on the love of God (Duties of the Heart, written in Judeo-Arabic about 1080, read in Judah ibn Tibbon's Hebrew): 'What is the love of God? It is the soul's longing and its inclining of itself to the Creator, so that it may cleave to His supernal light.' Tolstoy's sentence is close: «стремлении души и влечении ее к создателю» for the longing and inclining of the soul to the Creator, «чтобы слиться с его высшим светом» for 'so that it may cleave to His supernal light'. The words are Bahya's, a philosopher of eleventh-century Spain, and in neither the Talmud nor the Midrash. Tolstoy copied the sentence unchanged from his Thoughts of Wise Men (1903), 22 January, where it is also signed «Талмуд». His Talmud sayings there came from two Russian collections (vol. 40 commentary): O. Ya. Gurvich's «Живая мораль, или Сокровищница талмудической этики» (Vilna, 1901), whose compiler drew on 'the whole of ancient Hebrew literature', and «Мировоззрение талмудистов» (St Petersburg, 1874–76); neither is online. No public-domain English of this gate was found.