<div dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">RSZN wrote:</span></div>
>> how prevalent , if at all , is the practice of singing lecha dodi to that melody on shabbat chazon?</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br>
</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Until five years ago, I don't remember ever *not* hearing it. I assumed that it was a "universal" (among Ashkenazi shuls) minhag. Then I moved to my current community, where the rav does not allow it. He told me that he grew up with it as well, but that in his shul, they used to sing Eli Tziyon on 9 Av in the traditional East European fashion (less rhythmic, like "benei veitecha kevatechilah"), so when the sang Lecha Dodi to the rhythmic tune on Shabbat Chazon, it wasn't *exactly* the same tune. But since we, like most "modern" shuls, have adopted the West European custom of singing Eli Tziyon to the rhythmic tune, we associate that tune directly with the kinah, and thus shouldn't use it for Lecha Dodi.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">-- D.C.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
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