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Preschool hebrew audio
Tu B'Shvat
Tu B’ShvatTu B’Shvat is the Israeli/Jewish Arbor Day, celebrated by tendingto and planting trees. It is a day for celebrating the environment, ourinterconnectedness with, and responsibility for, the environment.Tu B’Shvat – words by A.Hillel, music by Benyamin OmerThis is a fun dancing song, with the children clapping on theverses, and stomping or jumping on the words “Tu B’Shvat” at thebeginning of the verse and during the chorus. Tu B’Shvat hineh higiah, Ilanot neta larov.Nezamer, nerkod, neri
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Shanah Tovah, Shanah M'tukah
The Birds Are Flying South/Shanah Tovah!
Rosh HaShanahRosh HaShanah is the Jewish New Year, (translated as the head ofthe year) and usually falls at the end of September or in the monthof October. It is considered a time of new beginnings and of internalhouse-cleaning. Children are taught to reflect on the choices that theymade in the past year, to ask forgiveness for any poor choices, and tosymbolically “throw away” the bad deeds in order to not carry theminto the new year. Traditionally, it is a time that families go to attendsynagog
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Shanah Tovah, Shanah M'tukah
Listen to the Leaves
This is an echo song in English and Hebrew about the connection between people and trees. Can be used as a movement exercise, inviting the students to plant their feet as roots and stretch their arms up as branches.
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PreK - 2nd
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We Have Come To Oust The Dark/Banu Hoshech Ligaresh
HannukahHannukah is the winter festival of lights, the one Jewish holidaythat most non-Jewish people are familiar with. It commemorates thevictory of the Maccabee soldiers in 164 BCE over the Greek armiesthat had conquered Israel and were forbidding the Jewish people frompracticing the Jewish religion. The Jewish temple had been defiledwith animal sacrifices, and after the Maccabees cleaned and purified thetemple, they looked for holy oil (oil that had been purified in a processthat took eight d
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PreK - 4th
Also included in: Shanah Tovah, Shanah M'tukah
Please Don't Fight/Al Takeh
Yom KippurYom Kippur is one of the holiest days of the Jewish holiday cycle. Itis a day of repentance for wrong-doing, for asking forgiveness fromone’s fellows and from God. Traditionally, adults go to synagogue, andeveryone over the age of 13 fasts, refraining from both food and drinkfrom sundown the evening before until sundown on Yom Kippur itself.The purpose of fasting is to let the body focus on prayer and not worryabout day to day matters, and to be able to feel empathy for those whomay of
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Shanah Tovah, Shanah M'tukah
Jug of Oil/Kad Katan
HanukkahHanukkah is the winter festival of lights, the one Jewish holidaythat most non-Jewish people are familiar with. It commemorates thevictory of the Maccabee soldiers in 164 BCE over the Greek armiesthat had conquered Israel and were forbidding the Jewish people frompracticing the Jewish religion. The Jewish temple had been defiledwith animal sacrifices, and after the Maccabees cleaned and purified thetemple, they looked for holy oil (oil that had been purified in a processthat took eight d
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Shanah Tovah, Shanah M'tukah
I'm Sorry/Slicha
Yom KippurYom Kippur is one of the holiest days of the Jewish holiday cycle. Itis a day of repentance for wrong-doing, for asking forgiveness fromone’s fellows and from God. Traditionally, adults go to synagogue, andeveryone over the age of 13 fasts, refraining from both food and drinkfrom sundown the evening before until sundown on Yom Kippur itself.The purpose of fasting is to let the body focus on prayer and not worryabout day to day matters, and to be able to feel empathy for those whomay of
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Shanah Tovah, Shanah M'tukah
The Noisemaker Song/Shir HaRa'ashan
PurimPurim is a holiday that celebrates the story of Jewish people beingrescued by Queen Esther from a murderous plot as told in the Bookof Esther, (Megillat Esther) in the Tanach. It is a fun holiday, whenchildren dress up in costumes, people make plates of special cookies(hamentaschen) to share with their friends, and prepare plates of sweets(mishloach manot) to give to both their friends and the poor. Traditionally,the book of Esther is read in synagogue, and every time the name ofHaman (the
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Shanah Tovah, Shanah M'tukah
Purim Shpiel/Mischak Purim
PurimPurim is a holiday that celebrates the story of Jewish people beingrescued by Queen Esther from a murderous plot as told in the Bookof Esther, (Megillat Esther) in the Tanach. It is a fun holiday, whenchildren dress up in costumes, people make plates of special cookies(hamentaschen) to share with their friends, and prepare plates of sweets(mishloach manot) to give to both their friends and the poor. Traditionally,the book of Esther is read in synagogue, and every time the name ofHaman (the
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Shanah Tovah, Shanah M'tukah
We Shall Not Be Moved/V'Haya K'Etz Shatul
Tu B’ShvatTu B’Shvat is the Israeli/Jewish Arbor Day, celebrated by tendingto and planting trees. It is a day for celebrating the environment, ourinterconnectedness with, and responsibility for, the environment.We Shall Not Be Moved/ V’Heye C’Etz Shatul – traditionalSpiritual/ Hebrew music by Amitai Ne’emanThe Hebrew text is from Jeremiah 17/8: “He shall be like a treeplanted by waters, sending forth its roots by a stream: It doesnot sense the coming of heat, its leaves are ever fresh; it has no
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Shanah Tovah, Shanah M'tukah
Etzei Zeitim Omdim
Tu B’ShvatTu B’Shvat is the Israeli/Jewish Arbor Day, celebrated by tendingto and planting trees. It is a day for celebrating the environment, ourinterconnectedness with, and responsibility for, the environment.Etzei Zeitim Omdim – traditional folk tuneThis song celebrates some of the different trees that are foundgrowing in Israel today. The children are instructed to stand as stillas a tree while the Hebrew words are sung, but when the “la la la”part is sung, they turn into the wind and blow a
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Shanah Tovah, Shanah M'tukah
Guests for the Holidays/Orchim L'Hag
SukkotSukkot is a week-long harvest holiday. Historically, it was when thefinal harvests of the summer were gathered before the rains began.Families would build temporary booths near the fields so that theycould live and work in the fields for the time of the harvest. The boothsalso symbolize the forty-year period during which the children of Israelwere wandering in the desert following their exodus from slavery inEgypt, living in temporary shelters. The word “Sukkot” means “booths,”and refers t
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: Shanah Tovah, Shanah M'tukah
Please Don't Hit/Al Takeh
Al Takeh – words by Sara Levi-Tanai, music by Emanuel AmiranThis song addresses the Yom Kippur tradition of asking forforgiveness from those that we know that we have wronged, but can be used at any time of year to remind children about community building rather than hitting. Forages 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 spontan
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PreK - 2nd
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Grace After Meals Music: Birkat Hamazon
This is an original arrangement of the Grace After Meals (the Birkat Hamazon) for wind instruments!
Here is the link on youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmIR3Rbvbqs
-Listen and sing a long with the words of the prayer
-Create a coloring activity younger children and groups of all ages
-Inquire about obtaining the score for band purposes
-Enjoy!
What's in the Class? by Benjamin S Gown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Based on a work at www.bengown.com.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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