A shiur exploring the features and significance of the tefilla Lecha Dodi.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yaakov Klein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
all right so we're taking the next step on our journey in the inner dimension of shabas series the 37th she hashem's help and after many many many weeks and many months delving into the depth of we are now taking the next step with into so and we're going to get into some of this and the sources as well thanks are this and the sources as well thanks are coming um we're going to get into the into the sources but is is more of a uh more of a recent innovation in terms of our liturgy generally speaking so much so that there were those that opposed its inclusion into the sitter um the 1500s of schma alitz one of the great mbum ofat at that time who um was kicked out of his land estranged um in in uh in in in the um in in uh in in in the 1490s by the the Inquisition at that time and he came toas along with many of the other mualin um which we're going to read about the raak his brother-in-law moso at that time a little bit later was the Kadesh Next Generation the um we have no idea we can't be massic what was going on of those little narrow Twisted Alleyways ofas and the you know Twisted Alleyways ofas and the you know the city still is infused with that Vibe with that energy of these great so wrote this as we're going to see take a look you don't actually have it in front of you but the first four stanza spell his name schlomo um Shamar lias mikash andari and then the next four spell Hali so he encoded his nameit into the p and how beautiful that he wrote A P uh that's a song and he was a Ley so it's m a beautiful beautiful um
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