Vzakeini

Benny Friedman Baruch Levine Shir Vshevach & New York Boys Choir
Premiered Jan 27, 2020

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Bonei Olam’s V’zakeini initiative harnesses the unique power that Jewish women possess while lighting their Shabbos candles.

By donating $1 at candle lighting every week, 18,000 women will sponsor the $18,000 treatment for a couple awaiting a child of their very own.

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,
Backup vocals, 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, Shir Vshevach Boys Choir, New York 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