Creator Bio
Levi Ibn al-Tābban
11th Century
Levi Ibn al-Tâbban was a grammarian and poet active in Saragossa, Spain, at the time a leading cultural and political center. Many later fgures praised his poetry, including Moses Ibn Ezra (ca. 1055-ca. 1138) and Judah ha-Levi (ca. 1075-1141), but most of his poems were lost until the twentieth century. Only small pieces of his grammatical writings survive.
Content by Levi Ibn al-Tābban
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May He give great strength
May He give great strength—
the Lord of lords,
to those who stand on their watch in prayer and supplication.
May He draw them out of the depths of vicious waters.
He gives might to the weary, to…
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To rise with the dawning
To rise with the dawning
My heart awakens me.
I watch for the eyelids
Of sunrise impatiently.
I rise to my Fair Gazelle,
And beg Him to pardon me.
With words He imparted
I speak of His…