הַמַּבְדִּיל בֵּין קֹדֶשׁ לְחֹל | Hamavdil Bein Ḳodesh l’Ḥol (abridged), a piyyuṭ attributed to Yitsḥak ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyāth HaLevi (ca. 11th c.)

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Akiva Sanders (translation) and Yitsḥak ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyāth HaLevi

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11th century C.E., 49th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, Angelic Protection, המבדיל בין קדש לחל Hamavdil Bein Ḳodesh l'Ḥol, הבדלות havdalot, זמירות zemirot

Source (Hebrew and Ladino)	Translation (English)
הַמַּבְדִּיל בֵּין קֹדֶשׁ לְחֹל חַטֹאתֵינוּ הוּא יִמְחוֹל זַרְעֵנוּ וְכַסְפֵּנוּ יַרְבֶּה כַּחוֹל וְכַכּוֹכָבִים בַּלָּיְלָה.	The one who distinguishes holy from mundane Will forgive our sins Will make our children and our wealth as numerous as sand and as the stars at night
יוֹם פָּנָה כְּצֵל תֹּמֶר אֶקְרָא לָאֵל עָלַי גּוֹמֵר יוֹם אֲשֶׁר אָמַר שׁוֹמֵר אָתָא בֹּקֶר וְגַם לָיְלָה.	Day turns away to the shadow of a pillar I will call to EL as the day ends On which They said to rest from the morning to the night.
A la derecha Mihael I a la izkierda Gavriel I sovre su kavesa Shehinat El Kada dia i kada noche	On the right is Michael, On the left is Gabriel Above my head is the presence of God Every day and every night

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Akiva Sanders (translation)

Akiva Sanders is a Neubauer Graduate Fellow specializing in Mesopotamian Art and Archaeology. He is interested in mobility during the rise and fall of one of the world’s first urban networks in northern Mesopotamia. Specifically, his research is concerned with mutually transformative interactions on the edges of this network with highland societies of the Kura Araxes Cultural Tradition. Previously, Akiva has worked on genetic diversity in present-day highland Georgia and other regions, and he has published an article on the application of a new methodology for analyzing the sex of ceramic producers to episodes of state-formation at Tell Leilan, Syria. Akiva has excavated in Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and Georgia.

Yitsḥak ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyāth HaLevi

Yitsḥaq ibn Gayat (1038-1089), spiritual leader of Lucena in the kingdom of Granada, wrote more than 400 liturgical poems with many allusions to the science and philosophy of his day. He also wrote commentaries on tractates of the Talmud and a lengthy commentary on Ecclesiastes.

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