ShabbatUK Parshas Noach

ShabbasUK Parshas Noach

In memory of Rabbi Noach Weinberg OB"M,

Founding father of the Aish Torah Renaissance Movement

Just one Shabbos and we'll all be free

Here I am, sitting with you and I wonder...

You are a sister, a brother – my kin

My ancestors are yours

It's the same family that we're in

And you, sitting opposite me wonder...

We are worlds apart  - there's a vast separation

So close at heart

Yet, we still make for an odd combination

This Shabbos we sit inches away and contemplate

Our thoughts merging, orbiting, soaring ... swelling

My life and yours fuse as one

Your story becomes mine for telling

It's a story to behold – long and magical

Of a People with a past so tear-filled and victorious

A story of G-D's love and compassion to His children

Throughout a history so glorious

It is a story in which G-D gave us a precious gift,

The Shabbos – to rejuvenate, to inspire, to uplift

A time to wipe the tears, soldier on and freshen up

Be renewed with vigour, reach out for the top

It's a tale where G-D gives us his word, a decree:

Guard the Shabbos and the Shabbos will guard thee

But Shabbos became a minor role in the lives of many

As farther away the generations from Sinai went

With it went our connection with our Creator – a spiritual descent

But now is our chance

Now is the time to convey

The message that WE CAN GET THE SHABBOS TO STAY

JUST ONE SHABBOS is all we need to be set free,

Let's do it all together – we all have one destiny

And as we celebrate with Jews all over the land,

DIVIDED WE FALL UNITED WE STAND!

Gut Shabbos

M. Scharf, Beis Yaakov North London

The author, a young Yiddishe child contemplates the separation between fellow Yidden – how we all come from Sinai but some have lost our heritage – and wills those unfortunate enough not to have experienced a Shabbos to stand together and partake of the holy day this week and always henceforth.