PLEASE SING ALONG!
HEBREW SCHOOL CHANUKAH CHOIR
We thank you tonight
For joining us here
For adding in Torah and mitzvot so dear
As we kindle the flames
Bringing light through
To every dark corner and soul of each Jeeeew
CHORUS:
There’s a small piece of heaven
In everyone’s heart
A glorious gift from above
It’ll sparkle and shine
As we each do our part
To reach out and touch it with love
Antiochus the king
Was horrible and mean
He forbid learning Torah, Shabbat candles, and menorah
The jews didn’t cower they hid for many hours
Studied day and night when the Greeks were out of sight
And we will come back home into Jerusalem
Home again
Then came the mighty Juda macabee
I’d you are with G‑d please march and follow me
A miracle for sure, its oil so pure
Latkehs and delights, a community unite
A miracle forsure, its oil so pure
The holiday of light we celebrate 8 nights
CHORUS
BLESSINGS FOR THE MENORAH
Bah-rookh ah-tah ah-doh-noi eh-loh-hay-noo meh-lekh hah-oh-lahm ah-sher ki-deh-shah-noo beh-mitz-voh-tahv veh-tzee-vah-noo leh-hahd-lik nayr kha-noo-kah
Blessed are You, Lord our G‑d, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us to kindle the Chanukah light.
Bah-rookh ah-tah ah-doh-noi eh-loh-hay-noo meh-lekh hah-oh-lahm sheh-ah-sah nee-sim lah-ah-voh-tay-noo bah-yah-mim hah-haym biz-mahn hah-zeh
Blessed are You, Lord our G‑d, King of the universe, who performed miracles for our forefathers in those days, at this time.
MAOZ TZUR
Mah-ohz tzoor yeh-shoo-ah-tee leh-kha nah-eh le-shah-bay-ah-kh
Tee-kohn bayt teh-fee-lah-tee veh-sham toh-dah neh-zah-bay-ah-kh
Leh-ayt tah-kheen maht-bay-akh mee-tzahr hah-meh-nah-bay-ah-kh
Ahz, ehg-mohr beh-shir miz-mohr kha-noo-kaht hah-miz-bay-ah-kh
Rah-oht sah-vah nahf-shee beh-yah-gohn koh-khee kah-lah
Kha-yai may-reh-roo veh-koh-shee, beh-shee-bood mahl-khoos ehg-lah
Oo-veh-yah-doh hah-geh-doh-lah hoh-tzee eht hah-seh-goo-lah
Khayl pah-roh veh-khol zah-roh yahr-doo keh-eh-vehn bim-tzoo-lah
Deh-veer kohd-sho heh-vee-ah-nee veh-gahm sham loh sha-kah-teh-tee
Oo-va noh-gays ve-hig-lah-nee kee zah-rim ah-vah-deh-tee
Veh-yayn rah-ahl mah-sakh-tee kim-aht sheh-ah-var-tee
Kaytz bah-vehl zeh-roo-bah-vehl leh-kaytz shee-vim noh-sha-tee
Keh-roht koh-maht beh-roh-sh bee-kaysh ah-gah-gee ben hah-meh-dah-tah
Veh-nee-heh-yah-tah loh leh-fahkh oo-leh-moh-kaysh veh-gah-ah-vah-toh nish-bah-tah
Roh-sh yeh-mee-nee nee-say-ta veh-oh-yayv sheh-moh mah-khee-tah
Rohv bah-nahv veh-kin-yah-nahv ahl hah-aytz tah-lee-tah
Yeh-vah-nim nik-beh-tzoo ah-lai ah-zai bee-may khash-mah-nim
Oo-fahr-tzoo khoh-moht mig-dah-lai veh-tim-oo kohl hah-sheh-mah-nim
Oo-mee-noh-tahr kahn-kah-nim nah-ah-seh nays lah-sho-shah-nim
Beh-nay vee-nah yeh-may sheh-moh-nah kah-veh-oo shir oo-reh-nah-nim
Kha-sohf zeh-roh-ah kohd-sheh-kha veh-kah-rayv kaytz hah-yeh-shoo-ah
Neh-kohm nik-maht ah-vah-deh-kha may-oo-mah hah-reh-shah-ah
Kee ahr-kha hah-sha-ah veh-ayn kaytz lee-may hah-rah-ah
Deh-khay- ahd-mohn beh-tzayl tzahl-mohn hah-kaym lah-noo roh-eem shiv-ah
O mighty stronghold of my salvation,
to praise You is a delight.
Restore my House of Prayer
and there we will bring a thanksgiving offering.
When You will have prepared the slaughter
for the blaspheming foe,
Then I shall complete with a song of hymn
the dedication of the Altar.
My soul had been sated with troubles,
my strength has been consumed with grief.
They had embittered my life with hardship,
with the calf-like kingdom's bondage.
But with His great power
He brought forth the treasured ones,
Pharaoh's army and all his offspring
Went down like a stone into the deep.
To the holy abode of His Word He brought me.
But there, too, I had no rest
And an oppressor came and exiled me.
For I had served aliens,
And had drunk benumbing wine.
Scarcely had I departed
At Babylon's end Zerubabel came.
At the end of seventy years I was saved.
To sever the towering cypress
sought the Aggagite, son of Hammedatha,
But it became [a snare and] a stumbling block to him
and his arrogance was stilled.
The head of the Benjaminite You lifted
and the enemy, his name You obliterated
His numerous progeny - his possessions -
on the gallows You hanged.
Greeks gathered against me
then in Hasmonean days.
They breached the walls of my towers
and they defiled all the oils;
And from the one remnant of the flasks
a miracle was wrought for the roses.
Men of insight - eight days
established for song and jubilation
Bare Your holy arm
and hasten the End for salvation -
Avenge the vengeance of Your servants' blood
from the wicked nation.
For the triumph is too long delayed for us,
and there is no end to days of evil,
Repel the Red One in the nethermost shadow
and establish for us the seven shepherds.