[Avodah] changing tune in lecha dodi

[Gershon Dubin]

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org

<<As for the origin, bemechilas kevod toras R' Dovid Cohen, I think it
has a basis.>>
So, the basis is

<<There is a minhag Frankfurt-am-Main to sing one tune for the beginning to
His'oreri -- using one tune for Shamor and Liqras Shabbos (about Shabbos)
as well as for the verses about galus.

Then they switched to a happy tune for *His'oreri*, when the piyut starts
discussing the Ge'ulah.

And then for the return to discussing Shabbos in Bo'i veShalom they
would *switch back*.>>
I needn't say it, because you did:

<<Not exactly the same minhag, but the beginning of the idea.>>

Then,  instead of a mekor, you give a sevara:

<<Second, this is a piyut written in Tzefas that has 10 stanzas (if you
count the initial use of the chorus as a stanza) and is written for
Shabbos. I am not an authority on qabbalah, but I would be surprised to
learn that there is no motivation based on the Eitz Chayim for changing
tunes after 6 stanzas, the sefiros related to the work-weak>>
The sevara is, just that, a sevara.  Plus a mekor for a different minhag.
A mekor for the minhag at hand is still missing.

Gershon
gershon.dubin at juno.com
 
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