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Translator’s Note: “Where Will I Find You” by Yehudah Halevi
BY Peter Cole
Yehudah HaLevi is perhaps the best-known literary figure in Jewish history. Hardly a Kabbalist, he is nonetheless looked to by later mystical practitioners as a distinguished and discerning precursor because of his Sufi-like surrender to trust in God and His presence.
Poet and translator Peter Cole was born in Paterson, New Jersey. His collections of poetry include Draw Me After (2022), Rift (1989), Things on Which I’ve Stumbled (2008), The Invention of Influence (2014), and Hymns & Qualms: New and Selected Poems and Translations (2017). With Adina Hoffman, he wrote the nonfiction volume Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (2011). Described…