On Friday evening as we welcome Shabbat, we sing the beautiful 16th-century hymn by Rabbi Shelomo Ha-Levi Alkabetz, Lekha Dodi – “Come, my beloved, to welcome the bride.” There are several recordings of the familiar S&P tune for Lekha Dodi from communities around the world, demonstrating some regional variation: Amsterdam (Hazzan S. Nunes Nabarro) http://www.chazzanut-esnoga.org/Old1/MP3/2b-0.28.mp3 Curacao http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nlis/he/Song/Pages/song.aspx?songid=55#8,136,3043,1678 Florence (Fernando Procaccia) http://www.archivio-torah.it/audio/LeoLevi/077.mp3 Gibraltar (synagogue choir) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIxhVgDuLJ8&list=UUAejUFDBq49setnTx2wZGnw London (Rev. Halfon Benarroch) http://www.spmusic.org/files/ShabbatEve/13_p81a_Lekha_Dodi.mp3 New York (Rev. Abraham Lopes Cardozo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KN3UdaN-Vs&frags=pl%2Cwn