Men in shul
That frightful night
Learning daf
By candlelight
In darkness it’s
Their only beacon
Indeed the words
Bameh madlikin
With what does one
Light up a home
When darkness, gloom
And looters roam?
With chessed, love
Abounds galore
And people just give
More and more
The roofs are gone
The homes are flooded
The insides soaked
The rooms are gutted
But phone lines, emails
Are flooded too
And each one asks
“What can I do?”
Centers where
Hot meals are served
Encouragement
Calm the unnerved
Shelter for
The homeless kin
Families are
Taken in
Open stores
To give out clothes
Secret chessed
Hashem knows
Yes, my friends
There’s so much pain
Brought by floods
And wind and rain
And it’s so hard
Simply to cope
But we must grasp
Each ray of hope
It’s the only way
To fare
To lift our hearts
Amidst despair
Look back through tzarah
In each dor
Crusades and plagues
Famine and war
And somehow
More than
Just survived
We rebounded
Grew and thrived
We can’t lose sight
Of better days
Or question
Of His secret ways
Just seize the
Greatness
Of our folk
Who somehow bear
The heavy yoke
Amidst the gloom
Be not depressed
For Klal Yisroel’s
At its best
