Yedid Nefesh at the beginning of Kabbalat Shabbat, we are looking to find a way to bring us closer to God, setting the mood for welcoming Shabbat. Asaph Neve Shalom shares our love poem.
Shabbat Shalom
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Shabbat Shalom
The a capella group Rabotai brings their style to Kabbalat Shabbat blending traditional melodies and a couple of unexpected ones as well. It is a lovely way to prepare for Shabbat
Shabbat Shalom
Shabbat Shalom
Or Zarua LaTzaddik
These lines from Psalm 97 are part of Kabbalat Shabbat and sung here by Nava Tehila.
Light is sown for the righteous- The poet of the psalm suggests that God’s creation anticipates a world of righteousness. The seed is already implanted, ready to sprout and grow.
Shabbat Shalom!
Shabbat Shalom
Although far from standard Kabbalat Liturgy,
this Yiddish remix of the Beatles classic, I Feel Fine, sung A Capella by Listen Up!
is a wonderful upbeat way to get into the mood for Shabbat.
Shabbat Shalom
Shabbat Shalom
Lecha Dodi is at the heart of Kabbalat Shabbat, Welcoming Shabbat. Joey Weisenberg and Deborah Sacks Mintz bring us the last two verses of this wonderful poem in beautiful fashion.
To the left and to the right they go out to welcome the coming of the Shabbat Bride.
Shabbat Shalom
Shabbat Shalom
To welcome Shabbat I share this niggun by Yosef Guttman Levitt.
The wordless melody of the niggun can help us capture the mood, connection, and change that Kabbalat Shabbat ushers in.
Shabbat Shalom
Shabbat Shalom
Each week I try to find a particular prayer to share as we enter Shabbat. I keep passing over this video of Kippalive- until now. This is Kabbalat Shabbat from Kippalive.Great acapella music to welcome Shabbat. It’s 9 well spent minutes. But if you want, you can go to the index on the left-hand side to go directly to a particular prayer or song.
Shabbat Shalom!
Shabbat Shalom
Nava Tehila performs a soulful rendition of Yedid Nefesh, the beautiful poem we use to welcome Kabbalat Shabbat. Written by Eleazar Azkiri in the 16th century, Yedid Nafesh is considered to be a love song to God based on an acrostic for God’s name, each stanza begins with one of the four letters of the Divine Name. (the youtube link will take you to other Nava Tehila songs after Yedid Nefesh- enjoy them all)
Wishing everyone Shabbat Shalom
Shabbat Shalom
As this week draws to a close, listen to the Gat Brothers combine their voices and their wonderful guitars sharing their rendition of Lecha Dodi.
Enjoy and Shabbat Shalom
Shabbat Shalom
We start Kabbalat Shabbat with the song Yedid Nefesh, a piyut (poem) dating to the 16th Century, attributed to Eleazar Azkiri as a love song to God. “You who loves my soul”. I share the first and Fifth verses of the translation by Reb Zalman Schacter Shlomi z”l (Shared by the Open Siddur Project):
You who love my soul
Compassion’s gentle source,
Take my disposition and shape it to Your will.
Like a darting deer, I will flee to You.
Before Your glorious Presence Humbly, I do bow.
Let Your sweet love
Delight me with its thrill
Because no other dainty
Will my hunger still.
Help, my Lover, spread
Your canopy of peace.
Enfold all human beings
Give all pain surcease.
Your presence on this earth plane
Do make known to us
And we shall respond then
With song and with dance.
Rush, my love, be quick,
The time for love is now,
Let Your gentle favor
Grace us as of old…
Shabbat Shalom