This Shabbat is Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat of Comfort, the Shabbat after Tisha B’Av. The name comes from the passage in Isaiah, (chapter 40), “Take comfort, comfort my people.”
Min HaMeitzar, From the narrow places, I called out to God, who answered me, And I am not afraid. These lines from Psalm 118 (5-6) sung so beautifully by Debra Sacks Mintz and the Hadar Ensemble can help us find the comfort of Shabbat at the week’s end.
Shabbat Shalom
The penultimate stanza of Lecha Dodi asks you to carry the message of Adonai out into the world, literally to spread out to the right and to the left. This beautiful welcome of Shabbat is a gift from Joey Weisenberg and the Hadar Ensemble, featuring the beautiful voice of Debra Sacks.
As we welcome the first Shabbat after Yom Kippur, I wanted to share this wonderful rendition of Ana B’Choakh by Joey Weisenberg and the Hadar Ensemble.
This prayer is offered during Kabbalat Shabbat. A favorite of the mystics, it’s power is said to lie beyond the words themselves and in the structure of the prayer where, as an acrostic, the 42 letter name of God is spelled out.
Wishing everyone a year of health and blessings
Shabbat Shalom