l'cha dodi - kabbalat shabbat

The mystical poem by HaLevi, with traditional music coming from the Kol Han'shamah Synagogue, sung in Pittsburgh, PA by the Rodef Shalom Congregation led by Cantorial Soloist Rowna Sutin, and pianist Don Megahan

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Friday night services
• Jewish music
• L'chah dodi

[kug123coxnet]

This is a beautiful melody for Lecha Dodi. There are thousands of new melodies for this prayer. In time, some of them will be called traditional. For example: hundreds of Shlomo Carlebach's songs are already called traditional and used weekly in most shuls. Thanks for posting.

[cantorandopera]

@kug123coxnet Very well said. I believe that it is thought that there are more musical settings of L'Cha Dodi than of any other prayer. But in my experience, there are tons of Mi Chamocha's as well.

[levyfest]

The term "cantor" refers to an individual who has been ordained by an accredited institution, per information on the ACC's or Cantor's Assembly's websites. Your appropriate title would be "cantorial soloist".

[cantorandopera]

@levyfest that is the term I refer to as myself although here and there I may have made a typing error - i will try to fix that.

[itzikraul]

מה זה?

הפכו את זה לביזיון.

בושה למי ששר פה.

[birmington]

@cantorandopera But let's call a truce - you can have the last word, which I welcome and will note reply to :)) Let's just enjoy music - I love this piece whether or not you think it is "traditional" - i have at least one other L'Cha Dodi posted "

Where?

[birmington]

@cantorandopera "Sh'ma heard around the world? It is a Viennese Waltz!!!!!!! "

Interesting. Have you a source for that claim?

"and how bout B'yom HaHu. Its Farmer in the Dell over here"

Not onlythe tune (which is not quite Farmer in the Dell) but theologically it must be rejected. (Hashiliush haqadosh)

"A lot of "traditional Jewish music" was actually German drinking songs, reworked! "

I know of only one, and again many synagogues do not use it -- either for that reason or another one.



[cantorandopera]

@yaakovreuven  - hehe :))

[yaakovreuven]

@cantorandopera I meant traditional as in from Israel pre-exile, lol.

[cantorandopera]

@yaakovreuven what music is 2000 years old? Many congregants think that the Oseh Shalom by Hirsch is Mi Sinai! It was written in the 1960s.

[cantorandopera]

@birmington where are are the Jewish roots to the Sh'ma heard around the world? It is a Viennese Waltz!!!!!!! and how bout B'yom HaHu. Its Farmer in the Dell over here. A lot of "traditional Jewish music" was actually German drinking songs, reworked! But let's call a truce - you can have the last word, which I welcome and will note reply to :)) Let's just enjoy music - I love this piece whether or not you think it is "traditional" - i have at least one other L'Cha Dodi posted . . . .