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 to connect as deeply as possible to just one core prayer for the month — called our ikar (meaning “essence” or “core” in Hebrew). To help you do that, we provide links to a wide variety of translations, essays about the prayer, details about its authorship and history, and (when applicable) ways in which it has been referenced in popular culture. Scroll down the page to explore!
Yedid Nefesh (August 2024)
Translations:
(English unless otherwise specified)
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”
