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A Rare Book of Morals and Parables: 'Ben HaMelekh veHaNazir' by Rabbi Avraham Halevi b. R'Shmuel Chasdai. Mantua 1557.
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A Rare Book of Morals and Parables: 'Ben HaMelekh veHaNazir' by Rabbi Avraham Halevi b. R'Shmuel Chasdai. Mantua 1557.
A Hebrew composition from the 12th-13th C written by the R' Avraham Halevi Chasdai, from an ancient source attributed to the sages of ancient Greece. Rabbi Avraham changed and innovated the composition in many different ways. Although Rabbi Avraham called his book 'Rivuch and Salvah', it later became known by the name 'Ben Hamelech vaHaNazir' – 'The King's Son and the Monk.'