[HANASHIR:13174] Re: Yidid Nefesh

[Freedabet <Freedabet...>]

Yes, it is sung before Kabbalat Shabbat, also at Shalos Se'udot, as a 
Bakkashah among Sephardi, before Mincha of Rosh Hashanah, and for the first 
Hakafah on Simchat Torah, but why? (the list is from Nulman's Encyclopedia of 
Jewish Prayer)

Michael


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> Date: Friday, 20-Dec-02 09:25 AM
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> Ellen...
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> The song Yedid Nefesh is based on a poem written in the 16th century.  Here
> are snippets of what I have learned about it...
> 
> 1533-1600 ELEAZAR BEN MOSES AZIKRI (Safed, Eretz Israel) 
> 
> The mystical poem was composed by Rabbi Eliezer Askari, who was one of the
> kabalistic disciples of Rabbi Isaac Luria and Rabbi Joseph Karo.  Azikri
> divided his waking ours into two-thirds writing and one-third silent
> contemplation. His Sefer Hareidim arranged the commandments according to
> time and the limbs of the body.
> 
> The acrostic of the four stanzas of Yedid Nefesh contains the four-letter
> name for G-d. Yedid Nefesh is recited frequently within Chasidic circles of
> worshipers 
> 
> Hope this helps!
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> does anyone know the history of this song? where the text comes from, why it
> is sung usually on erev Shabbat?
> 
> thanks. ellen
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