Welcoming Shabbat with Lecha Dodi with a Special Melody for the Days of the Omer

With Pesach in the rear view mirror, we return to our regular Friday posting of liturgical melodies from the Kabbalat Shabbat and Shabbat services. 

This week we came across a version of Lecha Dodi with a melody that's used only for the days between Pesach and Shavuot, the days of counting the Omer. 

It's sung by Hazzan Elisheva Dienstfrey. A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Hazzan Dienstfrey is the cantor at Agudas Achim Congregation in Alexandria, Virginia. In addition to her usual cantorial duties at Agudas Achim, Hazzan Dienstfrey has been a member of the Executive Council of the Cantors Assembly, and an enthusiastic leader of the Agudas Achim house band, Ein Lanu Z’man (www.einlanuzman.com), We Have No Time.

Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!

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