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Words
and music by Cindy Michelassi © 2011
Hebrew
text: Numbers 6:24-26
The
children of
As one
person with one heart
God’s Torah they received and
understood
Now
they had a place to start
May God
bless you, may God keep you
May
God’s light shine all around you
May God
bless you, may God keep you
May
God’s peace shine down on you
Now
this step you take opens a door
Each
generation, every age
In the
chain with those who came before
You
embrace your heritage
May God
bless you, may God keep you
May
God’s light shine all around you
May God
bless you, may God keep you
May
God’s peace shine down on you
Y’-va-re-che-cha A-do-nai v’-yish-m’-re-cha
Ya-eir A-do-nai pa-nav ei-le-cha
vi-chu-ne-ka
Yi-sa A-do-nai pa-nav e-ile-cha
v’-ya-seim l’-cha sha-lom
Words and music by Cindy
Michelassi © 2000
(Published in “The Complete
Jewish Songbook for Children – Volume II”
Available from Transcontinental Music
Publications)
We think now of
the ones we love,
r’fuah shleimah.
For God’s care,
this wish
we share,
r’fuah shleimah.
Bless them, heal them,
both in mind and body.
Please, God, make them well
again –
a complete recovery.
We think now of
the ones we love,
r’fuah shleimah.
For God’s care,
this wish we share,
r’fuah shleimah,
r’fuah shleimah.
Words and music by Cindy Michelassi © 2001
A
long time ago in the city of
Rabbi
Liva was the leader of the synagogue.
It
was a bad time for his people, I’m sure you’d agree,
vicious
rumors were the Jews worst enemy.
Rabbi
Liva thought, “What can we do, things are a mess!
We
must have some protection, I need help, I confess.”
The
answer came in a dream, the words of a spell
told
him, “create your own protector, he will serve you well.”
Chorus: It was the Golem, oh the Golem,
Of his kind there had never been one.
It was the Golem, oh the Golem,
He wasn’t too bright, but he got the job done.
The rabbi formed his helper out of mud and
clay,
a
quote of Torah, an incantation to say,
walk
around it seven times, to the left and the right,
the
Golem came to life in a flash of firelight.
The
rabbi took him home, in nice clothes he was dressed.
Introduced
him to the shtetl, they were quite impressed!
“No
one give him orders, he should do as I
say.
Don’t
take advantage or there’ll be the devil to pay!”
Chorus: It was the Golem, oh the Golem,
Of his kind there had never been one.
It was the Golem, oh the Golem,
He wasn’t too bright, but he got the job done.
Bridge: Each enemy of the Jews got their own, in turn.
Anyone who tried to harm them had a lesson to learn.
For more than 15 years the Golem kept the peace,
He’d tie ‘em up and take ‘em
to the local police.
The
day finally came, they could hardly believe,
“The
Jews cause no harm,” King Rudolph decreed.
The
danger past, the Rabbi felt that he’d done his best.
He
said, “His work is done, it’s time to put the Golem to rest.”
In
the synagogue attic, wrapped him in tallitot,
put
him to sleep with another spell that he wrote.
He
said, “No one go up there, there he should stay.”
The
story goes the Golem is there to this day.