Please Don't Fight/Al Takeh
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This is a 21 song collection of songs for Jewish holidays in Hebrew and English to help share with children the Jewish culture. Accompanied by a 12 page activity guide with instructions of how to access the songs for both people who understand Hebrew and those who do not. These instructions can bePrice $18.71Original Price $20.79Save $2.08
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Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur is one of the holiest days of the Jewish holiday cycle. It
is a day of repentance for wrong-doing, for asking forgiveness from
one’s fellows and from God. Traditionally, adults go to synagogue, and
everyone over the age of 13 fasts, refraining from both food and drink
from sundown the evening before until sundown on Yom Kippur itself.
The purpose of fasting is to let the body focus on prayer and not worry
about day to day matters, and to be able to feel empathy for those who
may often be hungry, and thankfulness for all that we have.
Al Takeh – words by Sara Levi-Tanai, music by Emanuel Amiran
This song addresses the Yom Kippur tradition of asking for
forgiveness from those that we know that we have wronged. For
ages 4 and up, I invite the children to stand in a circle, and then
we do the dance listed below. For ages 4 and under, I do this as
a sitting song, swaying back and forth on the final phrases. The
children often spontaneously put their arms around each other.
Al takeh, lo na-eh. (show “no” with pointer finger waving back and forth)
Ten li yad, od echad. (put out right hand, then left hand)
Chaverim tovim ne-he-yeh, (in a circle move clockwise, then counter-clockwise,
varying direction with each phrase.)
Chaverim tovim ne-he-yeh.
Chaverim tovim ne-he-yeh,
Chaverim tovim ne-he-yeh.
Please don’t fight, it’s not right.
(repeat above directions)
Give me your hands, left and right.
What good friends we all shall be,
What good friends we all shall be.
What good friends we all shall be,
What good friends we all shall be.
