Another year has left us
A year has passed us by
Looking back at the bizarre
I just cannot but cry
Whatever that has happened
And all that did transpire
We know, of course, was put in play
By a Force Who’s so much higher
Whether in our politics
Across the USA
Or how they vote in Israel
We’ll figure out one day
All the news you heard this year
The source all did begin
Last year Rosh Hashanah
On that great Yom Hadin
Poway, Pittsburgh, shootings
Those murderous attacks
Hate crimes rising against Jews
In Crown Heights by the blacks
Tragedies that shook our souls
Young lives snatched so young
Filled with tears, our eyes so wet
A mournful song was sung
Who shall drown in water?
And who shall pass in fire?
We sadly learned the answers
Those questions we’d inquire
Whether in a water park
Whether on a bike
The passing of a yungerman
A young boy or a tyke
The pain this year almost each week
Would cause us all to cry
Pleading that Hashem will say
Letzaroseinu, dai!
Across the spectrum chaos reigned
Fake News making facts
Libels on yeshivos
And claims of anti-vax
Two votes done in Israel
And still we do not know
Muller working two full years
And with nothing to show
Impeach! Indict! They yell and shout
As politicians plod
Invectives and divisiveness
From three they call “The Squad”
On all our minds, Siyum Hashas!
All we’d see and hear
And yes, my friends, three months away
Indeed, it’s drawing near
Bridging all of Klal Yisroel
Bridging every gap
Learning through each medium
Of course, without the App!
Hate rising in politics
Lakewood, Ramapo
Scary just to think it sounds
Like eighty years ago
Gedolim who have left us
Orphans once again
Rav Avrohom Chaim Levin
The rebbe of Skulen
Mechanchim of such magnitude
Some famous some unknown
Rabbis Trenk, Bauman, Traube
and Goldberg
And of course Rav Kolman Krohn
R’ Yoseph Herman left us
He wrote the Chodosh Guide
Rav Elimelech Bluth is gone
Was at Rav Moshe’s side
Rav Nosson Kamenetzky’s gone
Indeed, I am afraid
That we may never know the truth
Of how gedolim are made
Celebrate a century
Rav Wilhelm’s aspiration
A standard set, Torah Vodaas
For every generation
Hackers hacking every week
Ransoming for data
The problem’s just beginning
They say it will get greater
Each year, the news, it does get worse
The golus comes on stronger
I do not know how we can last
If this way lasts much longer
When churches burn
And mosques are bombed
Yes, that it makes the news
Defiling a synagogue?
Who cares? It’s just the Jews
We hope for comfort in this year
Together we all pray
Moshiach will arrive this year
Yes! This year, Tof Shin Pey!
