Welcoming Shabbat with "Lecha Dodi" and "What a Wonderful World" at the Port of Tel Aviv

Every Friday evening at the port of Tel Aviv, as the sun sets over the Mediterranean, hundreds of residents and visitors settle into red plastic chairs on the boardwalk and get ready to welcome Shabbat with traditional (and some non-traditional) songs.

The Kabbalat Shabbat service is organized by Beit Tefilah Israeli, a multi-generational and inclusive community of committed and passionate Israelis. They have created a model for a new kind of experimental and creative Jewish-Israeli congregation, unaffiliated with any movement.  A space where children can celebrate Shabbat in a uniquely Israeli way, where adults can seek answers to life’s essential questions and where men and women can celebrate their heritage together – blending the ancient and the contemporary, the universal and the particular, the Jewish and the Israeli.

The service typically includes many of the Friday night siddur and also some popular English songs translated into Hebrew, such as Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World. Today we're sharing a video of the congregation singing Lecha Dodi and What a Wonderful World.

Enjoy and Shabbat shalom!

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