songs of Dovid Kerner
 
  
   

 
Yom HaDin

lyrics and music by Dovid Kerner

Anticipation fills the air tonight
From the valley below up to the mountain heights
And in the cities, where the people congregate.

The awesomeness of reality
The privilege of responsibility
Stir the embers, firing up a heart grown cold.

On a windswept hill a fateful rendevous
A voice cries out a world is born anew
"Bind the cords tighter father, lest this all be in vain".

Now the ram's horn tune rises steadily
Singing to the people that its time to get free
Singing 'Freedom!', for everyone with ears to hear.

 

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Birthday of the World

lyrics and music by Dovid Kerner

Rosh Hashana is the birthday of the world
Rosh Hashana is the birthday of the world
Such a happy time* for every boy and girl.

Let’s go to shul and hear the shofar blow
Let's run to shul and hear the shofar blow
Hashem is the King of the whole wide world you know.

Let’s do the mitzvot and learn lot’s of Torah
Let’s do the mitzvot and learn lots and lot’s of Torah
Let’s all v’ahavta l’reyicha kamocha! **

                                                                               M.K. 5770


* "It was a custom of the Gaon of Vilna to be very joyful at this time when the shofar was being sounded, for he maintained that just as we are so joyful when a new king is coronated, so too on the day of Rosh Hashanah, when we coronate Hashem as our King, we must rejoice in full measure." pg. 25 of Sho'or Yoshuv Institute's "The Commentator's Machzor Companion".

**On three things the world stands: on Torah, on service [of God], and on acts of human kindness.

  - R; Shimon HaTzaddik