What was the turning point? Did printing the first siddur both affect and effect the fate of Lecha Dodi? There are so many questions to raise and perspectives to unpack. What a beautiful poem this is and one which carries such immeasurable strength. Stay tuned! the Rabbis of Safed continue to greet the Sabbath Bride even to the present day!
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Research!
I'm so excited about my upcoming research! With the help of my professors at the Pacifica Graduate Institute and expert readers and advisors in the Jewish community, I feel that this subject will be one in which I will learn so very much more than ever expected. The process over these next two years in Jerusalem, Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, and Austin I'm sure will expose me to some of the many mysteries and revelations of this intimate poem.
This past week I learned that two of the verses are sung in a minor key, attesting to their sobering content. Thank you Cantor Melanie for this information.
Meanwhile, my friend Anat is helping and coaching me with my Hebrew and my ulpan placement test for this summer's learning in Jerusalem - whew!
Thank you also to RJ's comment referencing Rabbis Diamond and Goldfarb at the Conservative Yeshiva - I'll speak with them this summer! I humbly request that you continue to leave comments on this blog sharing personal stories of Lecha Dodi. Todah rabah.
Shavuah tov hevrarim
This past week I learned that two of the verses are sung in a minor key, attesting to their sobering content. Thank you Cantor Melanie for this information.
Meanwhile, my friend Anat is helping and coaching me with my Hebrew and my ulpan placement test for this summer's learning in Jerusalem - whew!
Thank you also to RJ's comment referencing Rabbis Diamond and Goldfarb at the Conservative Yeshiva - I'll speak with them this summer! I humbly request that you continue to leave comments on this blog sharing personal stories of Lecha Dodi. Todah rabah.
Shavuah tov hevrarim
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Summer 2011
Spring Quarter arrives at my Pacifica Graduate Institute. I eagerly await my course on God and my two dissertation courses. It looks like this Summer I will attend Session I at The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. I am very excited about it. I look forward to meeting more people from Pardes as well!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Come, My Beloved
The fact that the translation of Lecha Dodi is, "come, my beloved", invites a concept of intimacy based in love, harmony, and beauty. Joseph Campbell uses the phrase, "rooted in rapture", in describing certain experiences. The concordia of this bliss married with the human spirit results in twenty-five hours of intimacy with beauty and love. Boi kalah, boi.
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