Master of all realms! You hear from all worlds. You look with love and grace upon all of your creations for whose sake you created Your world. Seize and fulfill the pure request from Your servant who comes before You after a full week, having shown her heart is full and her mood somber. The beloved Shabbes koidesh is already going away, and with our Shabbes, our rest has also disappeared. A new week comes up to meet us, against us, Master of the universe. We are people who know, just like You know, the heavy and difficult life of Your people Yisruel: their bitter mood, how difficulty and bitterly each Jew acquires his meager piece of bread through worry and heartache, the fear and hardship with which each Jew scrapes together his seemingly hopeless living. . . .

Categories:

Motsaei Shabbat

Tags:

gut vokh, Needing Source Images, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Unknown, Yudis Retig (translation), Yocheved Retig (translation) and Levi Yitsḥaq Derbarmdiger Rosakov of Berditchev

Hashem is Everywhere! — a song by Rabbi Yosef Goldstein (1972)

The pedagogical song “Hashem is Everywhere!” by Rabbi Yosef Goldstein (1928-2013) can be found in the context of his story, “Where is Hashem?,” the second track on his album מדות טובות Jewish Ethics Through Story and Song (Menorah Records 1972). In the instructions to reciting the lyrics, the singer points first to the six cardinal directions and lastly, by pointing inward towards one’s self. In so doing, one explicitly affirms the idea of the divine within ourselves and implicitly, in each other. . . .

Categories:

🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week, Purim Qatan, 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim), Motsaei Shabbat

Tags:

20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., affirmations, אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, children's education, circle drawing, English vernacular prayer, חבּ״ד ḤaBaD Lubavitch, panentheism, Pedagogical songs, Yiddish translation, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s):

Yosef Goldstein and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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An illustration of Seraḥ later titled (on postcards) "Shirat bat Tsiyon," originally published at the beginning of the chapter "Lieder des Lebens" (Songs of Life) in Lieder des Ghetto (1902) by Ephraim Moses Lilien

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