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Come My Beloved (Lecha Dodi, English)

An English-language setting of the 16th-century Shabbat hymn "Lecha Dodi" by Rabbi Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz of Safed - with original music and English lyrics by Walter J..

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An English-language setting of the 16th-century Shabbat hymn "Lecha Dodi" by Rabbi Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz of Safed - with original music and English lyrics by Walter J..

History

An English-language setting of the 16th-century Shabbat hymn "Lecha Dodi" by Rabbi Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz of Safed - with original music and English lyrics by Walter J. Kin (RIGLI), bringing one of Judaism's most beloved liturgical poems into a contemporary, communal voice.

Credits & rights

Free to sing, free to teach

These songs are free for synagogues, JCCs, museums, schools, yeshivas and families. For everyone else, free to start, and a modest fee later, so the songs travel and take root.

Questions, or a use we have not thought of? Write to doublesign28@gmail.com.

More about the wider Jewish Songs. For All project at havanagila.org.