Lekha Dodi

Lekha Dodi in Hebrew לכהדודי is a Hebrew Cantique used in the Jewish Liturgie . He is sung with the Synagog Friday evening with fallen the night to accommodate the Chabbat before the prayer of Maariv . The title of this song can be translated by: “Come, my beloved” what can refer as well to God as with a friend as one invites to join oneself to celebrate the chabbat which is seen here as a marriage as the continuation of the sentence indicates it, likrat kallah , ahead of of your been engaged. The assembly turns itself in direction of the door of the synagog to sing the last verse in order to celebrate chabbat hamalka , the Queen shabbat.

History

This song was composed at the 16th century with Safed by the kabbalist Solomon Alkabetz a Juif of Salonique Sépharade and répendit very rapdement within the great majority of the Jewish world each community adapting its air. Thus there exists version séfarades ashkénazes or even judéo-of Provence of this song.

Popular culture

In the film the Adventures of Rabbi Jacob Solomon (Henri Guybet) the driver of Victor Pivert (Louis de Funès) sings the beginning of Lekha Dodi after having declared with his owner that he refused to work the chabbat has just started.

External bonds

audio File " Lekha Dodi" MP3
audio File " Lekha Dodi" MP3
Translation in French and recording of lekha dodi according to the Alsatian tradition.

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