Learn the Four Questions (aka Ma Nishtana) for Passover with your kids. Watch this short video from the Shaboom team to practice saying the words together. Have a wonderful Passover – chag Pesach sameach!
Filmed on location at Temple Sinai Preschool in Oakland – with big thanks to Jonah, Eli and Leah Schwartz! Shaboom! voices by Cristina Milizia (Gabi) and Laila Berzins (Ben).
Hava Narisha RASH RASH RASH! Learn the joyful Purim song that kids love.
Note that people sing it two ways – Chag gadol l’yeladim, as Liron performs it here (a big day for children) or Chag gadol L’Yehudim (A big day for the Jewish people) – both are great but since this is a website for all kinds of families we went with children! Sing it however YOU like.
The lyrics mean
Purim time
Purim time
A big festival for the children
Masks, noisemakers
songs and dances.
Let’s make noise – “rash rash rash”
Let’s make noise – “rash rash rash”
Let’s make noise- “rash rash rash”
With our noisemakers.
Purim time
Purim time
we send gifts to one another
Treats, sweets
and other nice things.
Learn the words to Lakova Sheli – a song we sing for Purim.
The lyrics mean
My hat has three corners, and if it didn’t have three corners it wouldn’t be my hat.
Think of it like a Jewish B-I-N-G-O song. Happy Purim!
In this karaoke video, parents and kids learn the blessing, or bracha, over challah that Jewish families say on Shabbat…or anytime over regular bread.
Click the preview below to download a handy dandy blessings cheat sheet to post on your fridge and use together!
If this was helpful, be sure to check out all of our Shabbat Shaboom videos – you can learn about blessing the grape juice, lighting the candles and so much more. Shabbat shalom to your family!
Learn the words to Mishenichnas Adar – a song we sing during ADAR – the happiest month of the Jewish calendar.
The lyrics mean
“When Adar comes in, we increase our joy!”
It’s a popular song to sing during Adar, of course, but also around Purim time…happy Purim!
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov is famously quoted as having said
כל העולם כולו גשר צר מאוד, והעיקר – לא לפחד כלל
Kol ha’olam kulo gesher tzar me’od, veha’ikar lo le’fached klal.
All the world is a very narrow bridge, and the most important thing is not to be overwhelmed by fear.
In this karaoke style lyrics video, kids and their parents can learn all the words to this musical version with a classic melody created by Rabbi Baruch Chait and beloved at Jewish summer camps and schools around the world. Make sure to watch our Shaboom! episode – HERO HEART – that’s about facing one’s fears – inspired by this song.
Learn to sing a sweet song in Hebrew with Inbal and Yair, who we visited in Jerusalem! The lyrics are by Datia Ben-Dor and here they are in Hebrew and English. Perfect for Tu B’shevat and all year. Enjoy!
איך צומח עשב? ככה
איך צומח פרח? ככה
איך חיטה צומחת? ככה
איך צומח ילד? ככה
How does grass grow? Like so!
How does a flower grow? Like so!
How does wheat grow? Like so!
How does a child grow? Like so!
Hava Nagila (הבה נגילה) means “Let us rejoice,” and it’s an Israeli folk song that you have probably heard many many times at weddings and Bar and Bat Mitzvah ceremonies, not to mention episodes of TV shows. It’s a staple of pretty much any Jewish band.
The tune is based on a Chasidic melody and was set to music in 1915’s Ottoman-era Palestine, when Hebrew was being revived for the first time as a spoken language in almost 2,000 years (since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE).
Ready to party? Make sure you know the words first with this Hava Negila lyrics video from Shaboom! LET’S REJOICE!
Bim Bam! In this lyrics video, you can learn the popular Shabbat Shalom HEY song and get the family in the mood for Friday night dinner.
It’s not just a song – it’s our company name! BIM BAM, the production company that brings you Shaboom!, is proud to present our favorite Jewish songleader Isaac Zones in this singalong…so raise your voice, clap your hands and Shabbat shalom to you!
Thank you to our volunteer fake Shabbat dinner participants…
Simon Z, Gideon Z, Yali S, Levi S, Jo Ellen Pozner Zeitlin, Khanh Ly Ho, Jeremy Shuback and Sarah Lefton
B’tzelem Elohim means “in the image of God” and this wonderful song by Dan Nichols teaches so much about the spirit of kavod, or honor and respect, that each person deserves for being a person created in that image. You don’t have to be special to deserve respect – just a PERSON. We all have a song to sing…just open your heart and let it out!
Performed by Isaac Zones and recorded in San Francisco.
B’tzelem Elohim
Writer Name & PRO Information: Daniel Nichols (ASCAP)
Publisher Name & PRO Information: Clashing Plaids (ASCAP) and Little Nanny Dichols Music (ASCAP). Administered by Bluewater Music Services Corp. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission.
