[HANASHIR:3528] Re: This whole L'chah Dodi debate

[Chazzzan <Chazzzan...>]

Lecha Dodi was composed during the Middle Ages, for use by the mystics and 
their followers in Tzfat, to greet the Sabbath Bride.   This minhag (custom) 
is only 4 or 500 years old, not written in the Torah.

If your synagogue does not hold Friday night services to "welcome in the 
Sabbath Bride", then why not include any and all traditional Friday night 
prayers on Saturday morning?

Just remember...these "Kabbalat Shabbat" prayers and the order of that 
service were instituted by rabbis.  If it is your (or your congregation's) 
belief that rules instituted by rabbis can be changed by your personal 
choice, then there should be NOTHING preventing you from putting ANY prayers 
anywhere you want them!  Nobody is forcing you to put "Adon Olam" at the end 
of the service, are they?

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