Welcoming Shabbat with Lecha Dodi by Feliza and Or Zohar

Every Friday we try to welcome Shabbat with a new version of one of the popular songs that are sung in the synagogue and at home. It's a pleasure to find new versions ot these traditional parts of the Shabbat liturgy.

This week we came across a new version of Lecha Dodi, a part of the Friday night service originally written by Rabbi and Kabbalist Shlomo Alkabetz in the mid 1500s.

The liturgical poem, which is now sung in every Kabbalat Shabbat service around the world, is based on the theme, "Come my beloved to meet the bride; let us welcome Shabbat." It comes from the description in the Talmud tractate Shabbat 119a that "R. Hanina robed himself and stood at sunset of Sabbath eve [and] exclaimed, ‘Come and let us go forth to welcome the queen Sabbath.'

The singers are Feliza and Or Zohar, who live in Hararit, a small community settlement in the  western Galilee. Rabbi Zohar is a Reform Rabbi, musician, and teacher of Kabbalah in Tivon and in Misgav Regional Council. Feliza is a teacher of prayer through music and movement in kindergartens and elementary schools for normative and autistic children throughout Tel Aviv.

Enjoy and Shabbat shalom!

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