I’m waking up. It’s the morning of erev of Shabbat. Later this evening we’ll sing L’cha Dodi, welcoming the Shabbat bride.

This is a beautiful, many layered, poem by 16th century S’fat Kabbalist Shlomo HaLevi Alcabetz, whose first sentiment expresses the analogy of the Jewish people as the bride groom and Shabbat as the bride, coming into a unification of sorts.