Author: Marcie Lenk

November 5, 2018 Hebrew Songs Post a Comment

October 2018 song of the month

 

Song of the Month

 

This month’s song is sung by Rabbi Dr. Minna Bromberg, who led and taught morning worship in Bat Kol, summer 2018.  Bat Kol alumni will all be familiar with this melody for the last verse and the last five words in the book of Psalms.  If you are singing with a group, this beautiful song can be sung as a three part round (each group begins after the previous group finishes the word ha’neshamah). The word neshamah means “breath” in Biblical Hebrew, and “soul” in Rabbinic, Medieval, and modern Hebrew.  Consider what it means to call to every breathing creature, and every soul, to praise God.

כֹּל הַנְּשָׁמָה תְּהַלֵּל יָהּ הַלְלוּיָהּ

Kol ha’neshamah tehallel Yah, halleluyah

Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!  Praise the Lord!

May 23, 2018 Hebrew Songs Post a Comment

May Song

This month’s song is from Deuteronomy 26:8 – four words of thanks to God for the fruits of the land, as  we celebrate Shavuot-Pentecost.  Originally a pilgrimage feast to thank God for the early gleanings of the first fruits (for this reason the Book of Ruth is read in synagogues on Shavuot), it was later connected to the revelation and God’s gift of Torah to Israel at Mt. Sinai (for this reason many Jews stay awake learning Torah all night on Shavuot).

Eretz Zavat Halav U’Dvash

A land flowing with milk and honey

 

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April 11, 2018 Hebrew Songs Post a Comment

April Song

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) is commemorated in Israel and by Jews worldwide in the month of April, on the 28 Nissan in the Jewish calendar, the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in 1943.  For more on Yom Ha’Shoah, click here.

We share this video of Holocaust survivors and their families singing Ofra Hazza’s “Hai” to honor the victims and survivors of the Shoah.

 

The chorus:

Alive, alive, alive

Yes I am alive

This is the song that grandfather

Sang yesterday to father

And today it is me.

 

I am still alive, alive, alive,

The people of Israel is alive.

This is the song that grandfather

Sang yesterday to father

And today it is me.

Hai, hai, hai

Ken ani od hai.

Ze ha’shir she’sabba

 

Shar etmol le’abba

Ve’hayom ani.

 

Ani od hai, hai, hai

Am Yisrael hai.

Ze ha’sher she’sabba

Shar etmol le’abba

Ve’hayom ani.

חַי, חַי, חַי

כֵן, אֲנִי עוֹד חַי

זֶה הַשִׁיר שְׁסַבָא

 

שַׁר אֶתְמוֹל לְאַבָא

וְהַיוֹם אֲנֹי

 

אֲנִי עוֹד חַי, חַי, חַי

עַם יִשׂרָאֵל חַי

זֶה הַשׁיר שֶׁסַבָא

שַׁר אֶתְמוֹל לְאַבָא

וְהַיוֹם אֲנִי

March 15, 2018 Hebrew Songs Post a Comment

March Song

עֲבָדִים הָיִינּו, הָיִינּו
עַּתָהּ בְנֵי חֹורִין, בְנֵי חֹורִין
עֲבָדִים הָיִינּו
עַּתָה, עַּתָהּ בְנֵי חֹורִין, בְנֵי חֹורִין

 

Avadim hayinu, hayinu

Ata b’nei horin, b’nei horin

Avadim hayinu

Ata ata b’nei horin, b’nei horin.

 

We were slaves, we were…

Now we are free people

We were slaves

Now, now we are free people, free people.

 

“Avadim Hayinu” is one of the best-known songs from the Passover seder. These are the first words of the response to the “Four Questions” which point out the ways that the Passover meal is different from all other meals throughout the year.

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