A Moment in Time: “Take My Hand, and We’ll Build our Tomorrow”

Dear all,

This month, Ron and I celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary! (I guess we have entered the legal adult stage of our marriage!)

For our ceremony in 2002, I wrote a love song based on traditional wedding liturgy.

How touching it was that our kids pulled out their ukuleles to accompany me when I sang the song to Ron earlier this week!

It’s truly a moment in time implanted in my soul! How awesome that a sacred day from so many years ago becomes sacred once again through the voices of the next generation!

Below are the full lyrics, and linked is the original recording of Ze Dodi.

Ze dodi, v’ze re-i. This is my beloved and my friend.

Har-ei anachnu m’kudashim echad la-sheini.

Ani l’dodi v’dodi li.

I close my eyes, and I see your sweet face,

And I smile because you’re the one I love.

My beshert, my life partner,

Your embrace is what I am certain of.

Ze dodi….

Take my hand, and we’ll build our tomorrow

And we’ll nurture the blessings of our home.

Dodi, my beloved

Finding you brings meaning to shalom.

Ze dodi….

With love and shalom,

Rabbi Zach Shapiro