gift from Heidy and gift from Hattie for Daniel. As a youth, Yehuda Halevi lived a life of pleasure. He mixed pleasure with learning. It is possible that Yehuda's father, Samuel "the Castilian," sent Yehuda, who was his only son, to Lucena to be educated in the various branches of Jewish learning at the school of Isaac Alfasi. On the death of his master, Yehuda composed an elegy. It was...