Adonim ben Nissim ha-Levi

10th–11th Century

Adonim ben Nissim ha-Levi lived in Fez, Morocco, where he composed Hebrew piyyutim (liturgical poems) using Arabic metrics and incorporating contemporary philosophical themes.

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The words of our lips

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This is the opening poem that our master and teacher Adonim ha-Levi of Fez, son of R. Nissim, whose soul is in paradise, composed to recite [lit., expound] on Shabbat ha-Hodesh. This is its text: The…