Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz

ר' שלמה הלוי אלקבץ

Kabbalist and poet · c. 1500–c. 1580

Sephardi · EstablishedExpulsion & Safed

Salonica-born kabbalist who brought his circle to Safed. His hymn Lekha Dodi, welcoming the Shabbat as a bride, is sung in every Jewish community in the world each Friday night.

Tomb of Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz, Safed
Tomb of Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz, Safed. Ariel Palmon, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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