Reply To: Favorite Yiddish songs

I recently got ahold of a copy of an album I had when I was a kid. There is a Yiddish song on it which I remember I liked when I was young. Now that I can actually understand it a bit, I can fully appreciate it. It’s called Rosh HaShanah in Berditchev, and it’s about a conversation between R’ Levi Yitzchak and Hashem on Rosh HaShanah.

There’s one part which I love. I don’t remember the exact Yiddish words, so here’s a translation (which I’m not 100% sure I got correct):

In one place in the Torah, you wrote “Yom Teruah yihyeh lachem”. Now, look at what your children are doing for it! For one small verse, I blew 100 kolos! For 2,000 years, we’ve been begging every day to hear just one tekiah from you, Hashem! Please, let us hear just one tekiah from you – tekah b’shofer gadol l’cheiruseinu!