[Avodah] changing tune in lecha dodi

[Micha Berger]

Someone corrected me in private.

His resource was a work by "Kimmelman" (no other names or titles
provided), which he described as very little personal commentary, and
mostly quotes from R' Shelomo Alqabetz, his students, teachersm and
related works of qabbalah.

He explained the reason for "Lekha Dodi" as both first verse and refrain.
Malkhus can float up and become a crown to Keser, so Malkhus is therefore
handled differently than the other sefiros.

However, I added:
>          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.

He replied that the stanzas do NOT strictly follow the order the sefiros
appear in the Eitz Chayim (the structure of revelation, not the book).
And if anything, "Shamor" would be Binah, meaning if there were an order
it would be a descending order, and the break would be before the final 6,
not after the initial 6.

I do not know if that's from the sources or his own statement. Personally,
I would have thought that Yamin uSemol tifrotzi had a second reference
to the right-left relationship introduced by adding Binah to Chokhmah.
And before that is "kimesos chasan al kallah", referring to the synthesis
of the middle column of middos. And thus, I was reading Lekha Dodi as
ascending the Eitz Chayim up to "Bo'i Kalah, Bo'i Kalah".

Of course, if the Kalah is the Shechinah, then that's blatantly Malkhus --
which we already placed at the chorus.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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