Rabbi Schwartz at the JCC

We just can't get enough of our wonderful Rabbi, and we're also happy to share him with the rest of our community, so we proudly share with you the following announcement:

This looks like it will be a superb event, so please feel free to join Rabbi Schwartz, and invite your friends and neighbors to come on down for three evenings of spirited dialogue...  and debate!

Natan Sharansky at the JCC

It's Time to Say Good Shabbos

I thought I'd share with you a song that I like a great deal, "It's Time to Say Good Shabbos," by Abie Rotenberg, which appears on his album Journeys Vol. 1.  When my son was still a preschooler, I used to drive him over to the JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly every morning, and we'd listen to the JM in the AM radio program on WFMU, and every Friday morning they'd play that song (my son called it "the hammer song").  So, here it is, with a lovely video accompanying it, courtesy of on syntax291 on YouTube:

The lyrics to this song can be found on the Zemerl website, and here they are for your convenience:

The sun is going down, it's shining through the trees. 

Another week's gone by, become a memory. 

So throw away your hammer, there's nothing left to do. 

Go on home and find the gift that's waiting there for you.

(Refrain) 

It's time to say "good shabbos" 'cause all your work is done. 

gonna spend a a day together with the holy one 

Say a special blesing on a cup filled with wine 

Man and his Creator, it's a very special time.

Your Candles will be burning, to fill your home with light 

Singing songs of shabbos, well into the night 

so throw away the hammer, there's nothing left to do 

go on home and find the gift that's waiting there for you

(refrain) 

It's time to say good shabbos 

'cause all your work is done 

Gonna spend the day together with the holy one 

Say a special blessing on a cup filled with wine 

Man and his Creator, it's a very special time.

You can spend time with your family, you'll study and you'll pray 

Why not wait 'till after shabbos 

oh, those nails won't run away 

oh, so throw away that hammer 

there's nothing left to do. 

Go on home and find the gift that's waiting there for you.

(refrain)...

 And, of course, wishing you a Good Shabbos!