Welcoming Shabbat with Lecha Dodi at the Port of Tel Aviv

Beit Tefilah Israeli (BTI) is a fast-growing community in Tel Aviv that is renewing and revitalizing the notion of prayer. Services at BTI combine live music, modern poetry and literature with the traditional prayer book. 

In recent years BTI became famous for its Summer Kabbalat Shabbat service at the Tel Aviv port, which attracts up to 800 worshippers each week. This phenomenon—attracting many secular Israelis who once felt marginalized by the Jewish community—is now being replicated in Jerusalem and throughout Israel. 

Today we welcome Shabbat with the BTI version of Lecha Dodi, a liturgical poem from the Kabbalat Shabbat service, recorded last week in Tel Aviv.

Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!

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