Contra la verdad no hay fuerza (The Truth Will Always Win Out)

Daniel Levi de Barrios

1665

Truth descends to the stage in a pillar of fire.

Truth:

I come to dispel shadows with eternal light.

Error:

What difficulties do I see?

Will:

What do I see?

Intellect:

Is it not Truth whom I adore?

Falsehood:

Is it not Law whom I abhor?

Error:

Is it not she whom Moses raised on high, when, for his zeal, preaching to Israel meant preaching in the desert?

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Daniel Levi de Barrios

1635–1701

A poet and playwright, Daniel Levi (Miguel) de Barrios was considered the greatest poet among Western Sephardic Jews. He was born in Montilla, Andalucía, to a family of New Christians. In the 1650s, he returned to Judaism in Livorno. For some time, however, he lived as a Catholic in Brussels, which was under Spanish rule, and he received the rank of captain in the Spanish army. In 1662, de Barrios settled in Amsterdam but occasionally traveled to Brussels, despite the prohibition imposed by the Sephardic Jewish community. He also became a follower of Shabbetai Tzvi. Some of de Barrios’s books were published in Brussels under the name Miguel Barrios, his Christian name, to the dismay of the syndics of the Amsterdam Jewish community. His poetry was influenced by the Spanish Baroque style. Among his writings are historical works about the Sephardic community of Amsterdam, with attention to its personalities and institutions.

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