TheTisch - Rabbi Menachem Creditor's Writings
Kabbalat Shabbat

Kabbalat Shabbat, the Friday night welcoming of Shabbat, is a
joyous, melodic, spiritual experience!  Click the links below for tunes
used during the service. The pages listed below are in the
Siddur/Prayerbook Sim Shalom (original edition). Enjoy! and Good
Shabbes!

  * Yedid Nefesh (page 252) (this original melody for Yedid Nefesh
    by Rabbi Menachem Creditor was recorded by Rabbi David
    Paskin.)
 * Lechu Neranena & Shiru L'Adonai (pages 254-256)
 * Adonai Malach I & Mizmor Shiru (pages 256-258)
 * Adonai Malach II & Mizmor LeDavid (pages 258-260)
 * Lecha Dodi (pages 262-264)
 * Mizmor Shir LeYom HaShabbat (page 266)
 * Adonai Malach III (page 268)
 * Barchu through Hashkiveinu (pages 279-292)
 * VeShamru, Chatzi Kaddish (page 294)
 * VaYechulu through Eloheinu (page 314)
 * Aleinu paragraph II: "Al Kein" (page 322)
 * Yigdal (page 326)
 * Od Yavo (a spiritual meditation)
Rabbi Menachem Creditor
serves as spiritual leader of
Congregation Netivot Shalom in
Berkeley, CA.  He is founder of
ShefaNetwork: The Conservative
Movement Dreaming from Within,
co-founder of KeshetRabbis: The
Alliance of Gay-Friendly
Conservative/Masorti Rabbis, and
author of TheTisch: a Jewish Spiritual
commentary. A published author and
popular speaker on questions of
Jewish Identity, Leadership, and
Spirituality, and one half of Shirav, a
Jewish folk-music group, he
regularly visits communities around
North America and Israel. Rabbi
Creditor earned his master's in
Jewish Education and rabbinic
ordination from The Jewish
Theological Seminary of America.