11 08 2013 friday Rabbi Kalatsky gives a daily class on Duties of the Heart. Chovos HaLevavos is the primary work of the Jewish philosopher Bahya ibn Paquda. Ibn Paquda was a Jewish philosopher and rabbi who seemly lived in Saragossa, Spain, in the first half of the eleventh century. It was written in Judeo-Arabic (but in Hebrew characters) approximately in 1040 under the Kitab al-Hid?ya il? Faraid al-Qul?b, Book of Direction to the Duties of the Heart, sometimes d as Guide to the Duties of the Heart, and translated into Hebrew by Judah ibn Tibbon in the years 1161-80 under the Chovot HaLevavot. There was another contemporary translation by Joseph Kimhi, but its complete text did not endure he test of time