Chevron

Lenny Solomon

Chevron's song of songs

At the entrance to Gan Eden
In the land of holy stones
Lies the hopes and reams of many Jews
It's the city of Chevron

There are people who are living there
With the courage of their own
and they know that we stand beside them
That they are not alone

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The flame must never fall out
The flame must never die
Chevron is ours now and forever
Am Yisroel Chai
And while we long for the day
When we will return
From the corners of the earth
Shalhevet's flame must burn

When Avraham bought the land
With a 400 shekel coin
He knew this was where the physical
And Spiritual world enjoin
Now every day you're standing strong
With the dangers that are unknown
We realize you're representing us
By living in Chevron

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We've seen them through come painful times
And others might lie ahead
But her soul will last forever
Shalhevet's flame will never end

Together

Marvelous Middos Machine #3
composed by Abie Rotenberg

I am an ancient wall of stone
Atop a hill so high
And if you listen with your heart
You just may hear my cry

Where has the Beis Hamikdash gone?
I stand here all alone
How long am I to wait for all
My children to come home

A house of marble and of gold
Once stood here by my side
From far and wide, all came to see
It's beauty and it's pride

But Sinas Chinam brought it down
And with it so much pain
Now only Ahavas Yisroel
Can bring it back again

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Together, together
We stood by Har Sinai, my daughters and sons
Together, forever
We must stand together forever as one

You come and stand beside my stones
To raise your voice in prayer
You ask when will the Galus end
How much more can we bear?

But Sinas Chinam still lives on
It lingers in your heart
How can you come back home with me
While you remain apart?

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Memories

Artist: Abie Rotenberg
Album: Journeys 2

I am a very tired, old and worn out man
And my eyes have long been blind
Most things that people say to me
Just seem to slip my mind

Oh, but the suffering and painful times
That were in years long gone
Are still as clear upon my memory
As the numbers on my arm

What will become of all the memories?
Are they to scatter with the dust in the breeze?
Who will stand before the world
Knowing what to say
When the very last survivor
Fades away

When i hold my grandson close to me
And his fingers trace the pattern of my tears
And he asks me, "Zeide, tell me why do you cry?
What is it that you fear?"

And I tell him there once was another child
Who smelled as sweet as felt this warm
But he was taken form before my eyes
And only i remain to mourn

What will become of all the memories?
Are they to scatter with the dust in the breeze?
Who will stand before a world
That now wishes to deny
Will they believe in someone
Who never heard the cries

There us nothing I can say or do
To make things change
Time has a way of passing by so fast
Like a fleeting shadow, no one will recall
The faces of the past

What will become of all the memories?
Are they to scatter with the dust in the breeze?
But one thought gives me comfort
It's all that i have left
For I know that G-d in heaven
Won't forget

It's What I Believe

Artist: Abie Rotenberg
Album: Journeys III

Father please tell me, help me understand
Who made what surrounds us
The sky and the land
The water we drink, the air that we breathe
Father please tell me what should i believe

Listen my child put your trust in me
There is a Creator that man cannot see
And we owe our existence to no one but Him
Beraishes Boro Elokim

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It's not just a story, a tale thats been told
A fable, a myth or a legend of old
It's not someone's fantasy, theory or whim
It's what i believe, Ani Ma'amin

Father please tell me, I'm asking of you
Why am i different, what makes me a Jew
How am i to know the right life to lead
Father please tell me what should i believe

Listen my child, it was long long ago
When we stood by a mountain
One nation, one soul
And what we received is our very life's blood
Na'aseh V'nishma Omru K'echod

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Father please tell me, what does G-d intend
Will this lone bitter exile soon come to an end
Or must we continue to suffer and grieve
Father please tell me what should i believe

Listen my child, the future will bring
A day when the world knows who's King of all Kings
Today or tomorrow I don't need to know
Achakeh Lo Be'chol Yom Sheyavoh

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Sunshine

Artist: Miami Boys Choir
Album: One by One

Though the world's astray
And has slowly lost it's way
With the goal of virtue fading

There's a steady light
That has kept away the night
With the brightness it's creating

Can we bring the world it's only sunshine
Only Torah yields the hope for mankind
Let the beauty of our song
Find the good in everyone
Through the darkness shines our faith in our times

Can we help to change those lives of sorrow
Could we bring the world a better tomorrow
Will our deeds illuminate
Break those clouds of certain fate
Spreading rays of hope in Torah's sunshine

With the odds defines
We have stood against the tide
As the trials of life enclose us

It's in our plan
To revel in our task at hand
Knowing why Hashem just chose us

Can we be a light unto the nation
Carrying out the purpose of creation
Though we number just a few
We can radiate the truth
Through the darkness shines our faith for all times

Can we help to change those lives of sorrow
Could we bring the world a better tomorrow
Will our deeds illuminate
Break those clouds of certain fate
Spreading rays of hope in Torah's sunshine

Can we bring the world it's only sunshine
Only Torah yields the hope for mankind
Let the beauty of our song
Find the good in everyone
Through the darkness shines our faith in our times

Someday

Artist: MBD
Album: 1998- The English Collection

They learned in a dark, frigid cellar
Alone, just a small group of men
When in rushed the soldiers
And led them all away
The flame of Torah flickered on that day

So many tears, so much sorrow
The pain has lasted thousands of years
But soon we'll stop crying
The cruelty will end
And Melech HaMoshiach will descend

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Someday we will all be together
Someday we'll be sheltered and warm
Never will we have to express any fear
Our scars and our wounds will disappear

Avraham and Yitzchok will be there to greet us
Yaakov and his sons will stand by and smile
Moshe Rabbeinu will lead us once again
To Yerushalayim Be'ezras Hashem

We learn every day and we daven
We ask Hashem please bring those old times back
I know that You're listening
He always does it's true
For i received His promise
So have you

That Hashem will lead us out of this Galus
It can't be too much longer, you know why
And then together we're all gonna daven
Together we're all gonna sing
And say "Thank you Hashem for everything!"

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