Works
Najara's letters, secular poems, epigrams, and rimed prose form the work entitled Meme Yisrael (published at the end of the second edition of the Zemirot Yisrael). Najara's other works are as follows:
- Mesaḥeḳet ha-Tebel (Safed, 1587), an ethical poem on the nothingness of the world
- Shoḥaṭe ha-Yeladim (printed with Moses Ventura's Yemin Mosheh, Amsterdam, 1718), Hebrew verse on the laws of slaughtering and porging, composed at the request of his son Moses
- Ketubbat Yisrael (with Joseph Jaabez's Ma'amar ha-Aḥdut, n.p., 1794), a hymn which, in the kabalistic fashion, represents the relationship between God and Israel as one between man and wife (it was composed for the Feast of Pentecost)
- A collection of hymns published by M. H. Friedländer (Vienna, 1858) under the title Pizmonim.
His unpublished works are
- She'eret Yisrael, poems (see below)
- Ma'arkot Yisrael, a commentary on the Pentateuch
- Miḳweh Yisrael, sermons
- Piẓ'e Oheb, a commentary on Job.
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