Vzakeini – Bonei Olam feat. Baruch Levine, Benny Friedman, New York Boys Choir, and Shir Vshevach

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A Bonei Olam Production
Executive Producer: Boruch Goldberger
Composed by Miriam Israeli and Baruch Levine
Lyrics by Miriam Israeli
Choirs Conducted by Chaim Meir Fligman and Yitzy Bald
Production, Arrangement, Recording and Mixing: Doni Gross
Video by Munch Media
BTS Photography by Chaim Gutleizer
Directed by Menachem Weinstien and Mendy Pellin
Performed by: Baruch Levine, Benny Friedman, New York Boys Choir, Shir Vshevach Boys Choir

Bonei Olam Presents: Vezakeini, A Song for the Children

It’s a prayer of passion. Of feeling. And of yearning.

Vezakeini

A woman stands in front of the flickering candles on Erev Shabbos, slowly reciting the words, one by one, a prayer from her heart.

For her children.

For children she hasn’t merited yet, as she yearns to raise progeny of her own.

Or for the children she’s been blessed with, beseeching Hashem that they grow in the way of Torah.

This special prayer, recited every Friday evening across the globe, unite women from across the Jewish world, bringing together mothers and mothers-to-be iy”H in special harmony.

Celebrating this unity, Bonei Olam reached out to the best and brightest in the field of Jewish music to produce a song that would depict the special feelings of Vezakeini.

Watch, listen, and be inspired.

And stay tuned for Bonei Olam’s new forthcoming Vezakeini program.

LYRICS:

As I stand in candlelight
With my hands upon my eyes
There’s a passion in my prayers
That rends the skies
For a mother’s tears can shatter
Every gate that bars the way
All the heavens will echo those words that mothers say

וזכני וזכני
Take my children by the hand
Help them walk along Your way
May they never go astray
May they know You
As I know You
Oh, Hashem , accept my plea
Give me children who’ll give nachas
To You and to me
וזכני

As I stand in candlelight
While my home is dark and still
There’s a void inside my heart
I long to fill
Will I ever be mother
Will that blessing come my way
Will I stand by the candles
With gratitude and pray

וזכני וזכני

Take my children by the hand
Help them walk along Your way
May they never go astray
May they know You
As I know You
Oh, Hashem , accept my plea
Give me children who’ll give nachas
To You and to me
וזכני

וזכני וזכני
יעדער איינער וויל דאס זעהן
בעטן מיר ביי דיר אצינד
נחת פון א יידיש/יעדע קינד
זרעא חיא וקיימא
און מ’לאזט א טרער דערצו
יעדער משפחה מיט די ברכה
וזכני

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