[HANASHIR:10175] RE: Web of Women

[Marge Eiseman <amme...>]

I know it -- Rabbi Jack Gabriel wrote it -- it's not on any recording in print
(I asked him to redo it when I met him at CAJE last summer) and I have the
words because we use it in our Women's Seder in Milwaukee. Great song! -- Marge

Meris wrote:

> I'm looking for a song that I heard at least 5/7 years ago at caje either by
> Linda Hirschorn or maybe Margie & Ilene sang it.   Maybe Fran or Judy knows?
> It's called "Web of Women."  Anyone got a clue?
> Thanks,
> Meris
> Meris (at) nycap(dot)rr(dot)com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org [mailto:owner-hanashir (at) 
> shamash(dot)org]On
> Behalf Of Ilana and Mark Axel
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 12:37 PM
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: [HANASHIR:10122] Re: Rosh Chodesh for the young
>
> At our synagogue, we also sing Craig Taubman' Circle
> Song, learned at Hava Nashira this year, and we
> re-adapt the words in a second verse to celebrate
> either Rosh Hashanah or Rosh Chodesh:
> The world is a circle, a never ending circle
> a never ending circle going round and round.
> The moon goes up and the sun goes down
> and the world goes around and around and around:
>
> Refrain: I am (we are) a part of the circle , a part
> of the circle going round and round. 2x
>
> Rosh Hashanah (Rosh Chodesh), part of the circle, part
> of the circle going round and round,
> Another year (month) starts right now, and we go
> around and around and around.
>
> Our whole congregation is singing it, from tots to
> seniors - thanks Craig!
> Call me if you want it over the phone:(847)279-0473
> And, Shirona - thanks for the Moon Sees Me words - my
> family was trying to remember them just last week!
>
> Ilana Axel
> Music Director
> Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Synagogue, Northbrook IL
>
> --- Joanna Selznick Dulkin <joanna (at) stanfordalumni(dot)org>
> wrote:
> > Here's what the director of a preschool I worked at
> > did at our Rosh Chodesh
> > assembly:
> > (not especially imaginative, but it worked really
> > well)
> > To the tune of Where is Thumbkin:
> >
> > Today is Rosh Chodesh (they repeat)
> > A new hebrew month (repeat)
> > What's the name of the Chodesh? (repeat)
> > It's called Cheshvan (or whatever it is...then they
> > repeat)
> >
> > ...then we would sing a related song if there was a
> > holiday in that month,
> > like a Sukkot or Chanukah song, Mi She Nichnas Adar,
> > etc.
> >
> > Another idea that just came to me, feel free to use:
> > Oh Mr. Moon, Moon, pretty silvery moon, please shine
> > down on me
> > Oh Mr. Moon, moon, pretty silvery moon, hiding
> > behind a tree,
> > Every Rosh Chodesh you get so small (can act out
> > w/hand motions),
> > That we can hardly see you at all...
> > Oh Mr. Moon, Moon, pretty silvery moon, please shine
> > down on, wontcha shine
> > down on, please shine down on me!
> >
> > Chodesh Tov!
> > Joanna
> > Currently studying for the year in Israel:
> > 26 Rechov Rashba Apt. 6
> > Jerusalem 92265 ISRAEL
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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