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theyellowhobbitOnce upon a time I was in Israel, and was at Yikar for Friday night services. There isn't anything in particular that I remember about this Shabbat, except that they used this beautiful tune for Lecha Dodi that I had never heard before. I learned it enough to sing along, and I wanted to remember it, but by the end of Shabbat I had forgotten it entirely. All I knew was that there was a pentatonic scale in the chorus [specifically on the words "p'nei shabbat."]
When I got back to Penn, and asked people whether or not they knew the Lecha Dodi with the pentatonic scale in the chorus, they either said no, or had no clue what a pentatonic scale was (in which case I would best explain a pentatonic scale [one which goes 1235321, used in Chinese music] and then they still didn't know the Lecha Dodi.)
I actually asked some people on Friday night a JITW if they knew it, figuring that in a group this musical someone would have to know it, but alas, no one I asked knew what I was talking about.
Then on Saturday morning, we were singing Kel Adon, which I wasn't paying so much attention to since I was leining and had to look over my hobbity aliyah (4 pasookim), and all of a sudden I heard the pentatonic scale! I continued paying attention now, and I was pretty sure that this was the Lecha Dodi tune I had heard.
I talked to Adam L, the guy who had led shacharit afterwards, and told him about the long lost Lecha Dodi. Then when he sang Lecha Dodi to that tune for me, I was sure that this was the long lost Lecha Dodi. I was estatic!
Unfortunately, by Saturday night I was having trouble remembering the tune. So I talked to Adam again, and he told me he had a recording of his friend singing it on his computer at home. So I gave him my e-mail address.
On Sunday afternoon, while I was baking the cake and deli-rolls, I got an e-mail from Adam, which had the song attached. The real name of the song is "Hashmini et Kolech" ("Let Me Hear Your Voice"). I think it's from Song of Songs. If anyone wants to hear it, so you can know what the heck I'm talking about, send me an e-mail and I'll e-mail you bakc with the song attached.
Next time I lead a kabbalat shabbat, or maybe even at the next tisch, I'm singing that song!
When I got back to Penn, and asked people whether or not they knew the Lecha Dodi with the pentatonic scale in the chorus, they either said no, or had no clue what a pentatonic scale was (in which case I would best explain a pentatonic scale [one which goes 1235321, used in Chinese music] and then they still didn't know the Lecha Dodi.)
I actually asked some people on Friday night a JITW if they knew it, figuring that in a group this musical someone would have to know it, but alas, no one I asked knew what I was talking about.
Then on Saturday morning, we were singing Kel Adon, which I wasn't paying so much attention to since I was leining and had to look over my hobbity aliyah (4 pasookim), and all of a sudden I heard the pentatonic scale! I continued paying attention now, and I was pretty sure that this was the Lecha Dodi tune I had heard.
I talked to Adam L, the guy who had led shacharit afterwards, and told him about the long lost Lecha Dodi. Then when he sang Lecha Dodi to that tune for me, I was sure that this was the long lost Lecha Dodi. I was estatic!
Unfortunately, by Saturday night I was having trouble remembering the tune. So I talked to Adam again, and he told me he had a recording of his friend singing it on his computer at home. So I gave him my e-mail address.
On Sunday afternoon, while I was baking the cake and deli-rolls, I got an e-mail from Adam, which had the song attached. The real name of the song is "Hashmini et Kolech" ("Let Me Hear Your Voice"). I think it's from Song of Songs. If anyone wants to hear it, so you can know what the heck I'm talking about, send me an e-mail and I'll e-mail you bakc with the song attached.
Next time I lead a kabbalat shabbat, or maybe even at the next tisch, I'm singing that song!
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Date: 2006-02-20 10:00 am (UTC)and yep, def from shir hashirim. it actually refers to that very pasuk which the gemara uses as a support/ asmachta for kol isha "hashmieni et kolekh, uhareini et mara'ikh, ki kolekh arev, u'mara'ich naava"
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Date: 2006-02-20 10:57 am (UTC)stupid kol isha rule. stupid men.
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Date: 2006-02-20 08:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-20 08:09 pm (UTC)I would have been, but I was at Boskone performing and reuning with old friends, and I'm guessing that even JITW would have had a hard time being as transformative as all the time I spent on AIM with