Shabbat Shalom
Music by: Sherrie Stohl; Lyrics by: Judy Caplan Ginsburgh
Shabbat shalom, shabbat shalom
Shabbat, shabbat shalom.
Shabbat, shalom, every Friday night (2x)
We light the candles (2x)
We light the Sabbath candles
Shabbat, shalom, every Friday night (2x)
We drink the wine (2x)
We drink the kiddush wine.
Shabbat, shalom, every Friday night (2x)
We eat the challah (2x)
We eat the braided challah.
Shabbat, shalom, every Friday night (2x)
Hello, You Are Beautiful
Adapted from the song “Conversation With A Tree” by “Miss Jackie” Silberg
Kids Vocals by Rachel Shoun and Jonathan Ginsburgh
Hello (hello/shalom)
You are beautiful (Thank you/todah)
What a special girl/boy/child you are!
How are you? (Very good/tov m’od)
You are beautiful (Thank you/todah)
You bring beauty to this world.
Shabbat is Coming
American folk tune – “The Old Brass Wagon”
Lyrics by Judy Caplan Ginsburgh
Circle to the right, Shabbat is coming (3x)
Shabbat is coming.
(Circle to the left……, everybody in….out, clap your hands…., stomp your feet…, have a seat….)
Tzedakah
Music & lyrics by Judy Caplan Ginsburgh
Hear the clink of money in the can.
We can do our best to lend a hand.
With tzedakah, with tzedakah
We can help our fellow man.
Every person doing their part.
It’s a very good habit to start.
With tzedakah, with tzedakah
We can open up our hearts.
We can help those in need.
We can all do our share.
When you give tzedakah
It shows you care.
Hear the clink………
Sing A Song About A Rainbow
Music & lyrics by Karen Daniel; used by permission
Chorus: Sing a song about a rainbow of everlasting love.
Sing a song about a rainbow and a promise from above.
Yesterday I was caught in the rain soaking wet from my head to my toe
Then I remembered a story I’d heard about Noah so long ago
People knew what would happen if they didn’t listen, but only Noah obeyed
So, God sent the rain to fall down on the earth ’till all the evil was washed away
Chorus……..
For 40 days and 40 nights all it ever did was rain.
God gave us a rainbow as a promise it would never happen again.
Now life is a test, we all try our best
But it’s hard to know right from wrong.
Just ask the question has a lesson been learned?
And remember to sing this song.
Chorus…..
Things in Nature
Music & lyrics by Judy Caplan Ginsburgh
These are things in nature (2x)
Sun, rain, wind, snow
Shemesh, geshem, ruach, sheleg
These are things in nature.
Shemesh, shemesh shine so bright.
Shemesh, shemesh show your light.
Sun (shemesh) sun (shemesh)
Shemesh, shemesh shine so bright.
Yored geshem falling down.
Yored geshem all around.
Rain (geshem) rain (geshem)
Yored geshem falling down.
Ruach, ruach send us a breeze.
Ruach, ruach blow through the trees.
Wind (ruach) wind (ruach)
Ruach, ruach send us a breeze.
Sheleg, sheleg pretty and white.
Sheleg, sheleg dance through the night.
Snow (sheleg) snow (sheleg)
Sheleg, sheleg pretty and white.
Derech Eretz
Music & lyrics by Judy Caplan Ginsburgh
Derech Eretz, Derech Eretz
That means manners, we should know
Derech Eretz, Derech Eretz
That means manners, here we go. (now you know)
Todah (Thank you)
You’re very welcome
Todah (Thank you)
Todah raba.
S’licha (Excuse me)
I am sorry.
S’licha (Excuse me)
Pardon me.
Amazing Kids
Music & lyrics by Judy Caplan Ginsburgh
When I was young,
I knew that I wanted to sing a song.
And as I grew I learned to sing
And have you sing along.
Chorus: If you dream it, don’t just dream it
You can do it if you try.
You can be whatever you want to be.
‘Cause you’re amazing
Yes, you’re amazing
You can do it if you try.
You’re amazing
Yes, you’re amazing
It’s a fact you can’t deny.
When you are young, you learn many things to see what you do best.
And then one day, you’ll discover the thing you do better than all the rest.
Chorus…….
In My Sukkah
Music and lyrics by Dean Friedman
copyright 2000 Dean Friedman Music (PRS)
I built a little sukkah
Out in the back
It looks like a house
And a little like a shack
Well it’s not too big
And it’s not too high
When you sit inside
You can see the sky.
Chorus: Shake, shake, shake the lulav
Smell the etrog so sweet.
Come and have a looka in my sukkah
And help yourself to something to eat
In my sukkah, in my sukkah, in my suu……..kkah.
I built the roof
Of sticks and twigs
I strung up apples
And nuts and figs
And some bananas
And that’s not all
There were fruits and veggies
All over the walls.
Chorus…..
I built my sukkah with cloth and wood
It looks so pretty and it smells so good
With leaves and branches all around
My momma lights the candles when the sun goes down.
Chorus……
Lulav Shake
Music and lyrics by Steve Dropkin
Sukkot is a harvest holiday
The celebration lasts for seven days
We build our sukkah
Then we decorate
A special booth in which we congregate.
Chorus: Do the lulav shake (shake, shake, shake) (3x)
Do the lulav shake.
The symbols of sukkot are quite unique
They show God’s presence the entire week.
The etrog’s smell it gets into the air
We wave the lulav everywhere.
Chorus……..
Hadas and aravah on either side
Surround the lulav that we shake with pride.
To north, the south, the west and to the east
We celebrate and then we feast.
Chorus……..
S’vivon Round
Part I: S’vivon, sov, sov (8x)
Part II: Lots of latkes (3x)
Lots, let’s all eat them up!
(Repeat Part II twice)
Part III: Macabbee, mac, mac, mac, macabbee
Mac, mac, mac, macabbee
Mac, mac, mac, ……..
(Repeat Part III twice)
Let’s Plant A Tree in Eretz Yisrael
Music: “Achshav”
Lyrics by Judy Caplan Ginsburgh
Let’s plant a tree in eretz Yisrael (2x)
Hey! etz, etz, etz, b’eretz Yisrael (2x)
Then comes the sun in eretz Yisrael (2x)
Hey! shemesh, shemesh, shemesh b’eretz Yisrael (2x)
Then comes the rain in eretz Yisrael (2x)
Hey! Yored geshem, geshem b’eretz Yisrael (2x)
Our tree will grow in eretz Yisrael (2x)
Hey! etz, etz, etz b’eretz Yisrael (2x)
Tree Song
Music & lyrics by Josh “the Tree Song guy” Miller
Used by permission
We grow, we grow, we grow…….
Tu, tu, tu, tu………….Tu Bish’vat
Tree, tree, tree…….. Tu Bish’vat
Well, I’ve got a friend
Who comforts me
I’m a kid
And he’s a tree.
On my birthday
We eat a lot
On his birthday
It’s Tu Bish’vat!
Nosh, Nosh A Hamantash
Chorus: Nosh, nosh a hamantash
Nosh, nosh a hamantash now.
Roll, roll, roll the dough with me
Roll it flat and you will see
Haman’s hat was just like that
Let’s nosh a hamantash now.
Chorus…….
(Add: cut…cut it straight; fill….fill it full; fold….fold it right; bake….bake it brown; eat….it quick)
Yom Ha-atzmaut
American folk tune “Skip to my Lou”
Lyrics by Judy Caplan Ginsburgh
Yom Ha-atzmaut (3x)
Israel’s Independence Day!
Freedom came in ’48
Nineteen hundred and forty-eight.
Freedom came so all Jews may
Celebrate Independence Day.
Shema Lullaby
Music and lyrics by Judy Caplan Ginsburgh
Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheynu
Adonai Echad.
May God bless you and keep you.
May God watch over you.
May God always be inside of your heart.
May peace be always with you.
