Kabbalat Shabbat ~ Lecha Dodi #2 скачать в хорошем качестве

Kabbalat Shabbat ~ Lecha Dodi #2

When G-d created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day, which He blessed and made holy, Shabbat appeared before the Holy One, blessed be He, and complained: “Master of the universe, each day of the week has a mate, Sunday has Monday, Tuesday has Wednesday, Thursday has Friday, but I am the odd one without a mate!” Replied G-d: “The Jewish people will be your mate.” Thus, when G-d gave his Torah to the Jewish people at Sinai, He began the Fifth Commandment with the words, Remember the Shabbat day to keep it holy, as if to say, “Remember the promise I made to the Shabbat that the Jewish people will be its mate.” The word l’kadsho (to keep it holy) also means “to betroth it” — an illusion to the special relationship between the Jewish people and the Shabbat as that of “bride” and “groom.”