Baal Hatanya's Kol Dodi Played at Toronto Market

A group at the Kensington Market in Toronto, Canada, plays the Baal Hatanya's Kol Dodi during "Pedestrian Sunday."

This melody is one of the ten composed by the Baal Hatanay (also known as the Alter Rebbe) himself. The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yoseph Yitzchok, once explained that with the power inherent in this melody the Alter Rebbe could purify and refine a Jewish soul. Click Here to listen to the way Chasidim sing it. Click Here for a video of it being sung at the Lubavitcher Rebbe's Farbrengin.


Kensington Market is a distinctive multicultural neighbourhood in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Market is an older neighbourhood and one of the city's most well-known. In November 2006, it was designated a National Historic Site of Canada.

"Pedestrian Sunday" refers to the last Sunday of every month from May to October, where "we remove the automobile and the streets become a cultural playground – an expression of our community’s diverse ethnicity, age and interests."