Kab Shab from the Kitchen

Here is a Kabbalat Shabbat from the kitchen! The prayers that welcome Shabbat every Friday. Recorded via zoom Spring 2020 with my parents (and bubbie) during early days covid lockdown, I'm sharing this not as a performance (seriously though - we are amateurs and don't always hit the right notes!) , but as something that you can use, and sing along with as a guide to elevate and shift into Shabbat. Turn it on Friday afternoons to help you prep for or bring in Shabbat. Sing along if you want, play it for your kiddos to hear or while you are cooking dinner- repetition, melody, sacred songs.

Kabbalat Shabbat is how we set the tone. It’s how we say: this time is different. It’s rest, it’s realignment, it’s a weekly reset for the soul. But it doesn’t just happen — we welcome it into being through song and melody and ancient words that bring in the energy of yearning, of wholeness, of Shabbes. Shabbat functions best for us when we help it work - when we craft a soft landing: light, song, breath, intention to welcome the shifting time. It’s spiritual architecture. A pathway from weekday to shabbat, from doing to being, from busy to spacious.

Kab Shab, from our kitchen to yours. Press play and enjoy!

Note: this was originally recorded with Beth Tzedec Congregation