Shabbat Unbound Resources

Shabbat Unbound is a Friday-night service that takes 12 months to complete! So why does it take so long? Because each month of Shabbat Unbound, we don’t want to just shuttle quickly through a ton of liturgy. Instead, we connect as deeply as possible to just one core prayer for the month — called our ikar (meaning “essence” or “core”). To help you out, we provide links to translations, essays about each prayer, melodies to which it can be sung, and so much more!

Scroll down this page to check out our prayer-by-prayer resources for Shabbat Unbound! And register for upcoming Shabbat Unbound gatherings via this link.

Yedid Nefesh (August 2024)

Translations:

(English unless otherwise specified)

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Yedid Nefesh Melodies:

Image Credit: Roni Pinto

Essays:

Image Credit: Adina Roizman

Other Yedid Nefesh Resources:

Between the Temples (a 2024 film, which features Yedid Nefesh in multiple scenes — one could argue the whole movie is about the themes of this prayer!)
A source sheet from Elie Kaunfer, outlining all the different Biblical source-texts for Yedid Nefesh, entitled “The Liturgical History of Yedid Nefesh”