[Avodah] changing tune in lecha dodi

[Ben Waxman]

Again, this time in English

I have davened with a Yeminite minyan quite a few times and they sing
ALL of Kabbalot Shabbat. But it is the same tune for all the Tehillim
and for all of Lecha Dodi. Nice tune, I really like it.



From: "Micha Berger" <micha at aishdas.org>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 04:59:37AM +0000, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
>: It seems to me that the burden is on *him* to (1) define at what point
>: a "popular practice" becomes a "minhag yisroel",

> Item #1 is something I would like to hear opinions about from the chevrah.

I also don't understand this point. Why must EVERYTHING get regulated? By
this way of thinking, the Shlomo tunes should have been assur, since
"back then" Kabbalot Shabbat was much simpler. I can't say that as a
child I got around to too many shuls, but when I did, the tunes were
always the same.(I'm not trying to bring up (again) the value of Shlomo
tunes. This is merely an example of changes in the way things were done.)

Ben