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Kol Dodi

Lyrics:

Transliteration:

Kol dodi dofeik pischi li achosi rayosi yonosi tamosi.

Translation:

"I sleep, but my heart is awake. Hark! My beloved is knocking: Open for me, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is full of dew, my locks with the drops of the night."

Song of Songs 5:2

The deeply moving tones of this melody give expression to the significance of the verse. The heavenly call of the G-dly voice awakens and summons man's soul to permit G-dliness to enter his heart. In the last phrase of the melody we have the reply of the soul. It is ready to fulfill its mission of the heavenly design to illuminate the world with sanctity through Torah and Mitzvoth.

This melody is one of the ten composed by the Alter Rebbe himself. The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yoseph Yitzchok, once explained that with the power inherent in this melody the Alter Rebbe could purify and refine a Jewish soul.

Composed or Taught By
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi

Vocalists
Hersh Gansburg

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Music notes courtesy of Kehot Publication Society and Chabad Melodies by Eli Lipsker and Velvel Pasternak.

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Latest Comments:

Posted: June 4, 2010

And onward home...

In religious Zionism, this verse is viewed as G-d's call to us to go up and show that we want Moshiach. G-d asks us to open for him then we will come in.

Posted By Y. Friedman

Posted: Jan 10, 2010

this my favorite niggun!

Posted By Anonymous, Chicago, IL

Posted: Feb 1, 2009

Hundreds of years of oppression and persecution, winters and shetls. But lo a a flicker of a flame that burns through it all, a story told of a G-d who found a people, and a people who proclaimed this faith through all time, even in the coldest and darkest of places; souls express their longing.

Posted By Berel, Buffalo , ny

Posted: Jan 26, 2009

Very Good!

I liked it very much! At Cheder, everybody was singing it and I really enjoyed this Niggun! Thank you for putting it on!

Posted By David, toronto, canada

Posted: May 3, 2007

I like this arrangement, but it doesn't really correspond very well with the provided score.

Posted By Lazer, Brooklyn, NY

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	Kol Dodi
The deeply moving tones of this melody give expression to the significance of this verse, "I sleep, but my heart is awake"
Topics: Music; Song (58), Nigun (170)