Mystical Meaning of Lekhah Dodi & Kabbalat Shabbat

The Mystical Meaning of Lekhah Dodi and Kabbalat Shabbat, by Reuven Kimelman. קבלת שבת ולכה דודי. Solomon Alkabetz composed Lekhah Dodi in Safed in the mid-sixteenth century. This book discloses the poem’s kabbalistic meaning and its function within the Sabbath evening service. It explains how the ceremony for the welcoming of the Sabbath developed in Safed as a wedding and coronation ceremony in which the Sabbath was personified as bride and queen. The song merges erotic, mystical, and historical images into a kabbalistic vision of redemption. It urges one to join the divine Lover in greeting the weekly Sabbath to get to experience the cosmic Sabbath. (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticism 9; 2003, 286 pp., ISBN 0-9705369-7-6, in Hebrew). Domestic orders only.

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