L’CHAH DODI
When singing the last verse we rise and turn to face the door to the synagogue. As we sing the closing words bo’i challah, bo’i challah we bow to greet the Shabbat queen.
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9 Come in peace and come in joy, God, your husband, you, God’s pride; among the faithful chosen people, come my bride, come my bride! Come, my friend, to greet the bride, to welcome in the Shabbat eve.
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Shlomo ha–levi Alkabetz
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9 Bo’i v’shalom ateret ba’lah, gam b’simcha u’vtsoholah, toch emunei am s’gullah bo’i challah bo’i challah. L’chah dodi likrat kallah, p’nei shabbat n’kab’lah.
In some congregations mourners enter at this point and are greeted:
mFw ¨O ©d May the Everpresent comfort you together with all those who mourn.
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mFw ¨O ©d Ha–makom y’nacheim etchem b’toch sh’ar ha–aveilim.
generations past, those that remain, those that seem remote. We rise and turn, physically leaving the week that is past behind us. We greet the special time that holds all Jewish hopes and aspirations, past, present and those yet to be dreamed, the Shabbat bride. Greeting the mourners The distance between dream and reality is caught for a moment in some traditions when we welcome those in mourning with words of comfort and consolation.
i ¦cFc d ¨k §l L’chah Dodi In our imagination we join with the rabbis of Safed who would go into the fields to greet the Shabbat bride. We sing L’chah dodi and revisit the millennial dreams, the messianic hopes of our people: the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the temple, the restoration of our people under the leadership of a descendant of King David, a time when we are no longer shamed or bowed down, but instead rejoice in the presence of God. We hold for a moment these visions of
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