Yad Charuzim (יד חרוזים) (or Handbook of Rhymes), by Gershom Chafetz, is a Hebrew rhyme lexicon.
From Chapter III - Poets of the Seventeenth Century (p.370)
"The scope of Hebrew poetry has also enlarged. While we find... at the end of the century the brilliant young son of Moses b. Gerson, Gentile (Hefez) (1663-1711) Gerson, who died in 1700 at the age of seventeen, busying himself with giving poetic form to the 613 Commandments (Shir Le-Taryag Mizwot), the theme of the poets of this period bears a closer relation to life, and its tone is more worldly. Even Gerson Hefez shows in his Yad Haruzim (Venice 1700) which is a dictionary of rimes, a fine appreciation of poetry and poetic forms, and the octave he quotes from his father is elegant and finished... The bulk of the poetry of the seventeenth century is philosophical, didactic, and polemic rather than religious. True poetic feeling is beginning to manifest itself."
Some information repurposed from Encyclopedia Judaica
(Title page, Yad Charuzim)
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