Nathan Englander: The Passover Song

What I most remember, though, what stays most vivid, is the Haggadah itself ”” the words and the rhythms, rendered here in the translation I’ve been working on:

Were it our mouths were filled with a singing like the sea,

And our tongues awash with song, as waves-countless,

And our lips to lauding, as the skies are wide,

And our eyes illumined like the sun and the moon,

And our hands spread-out like the eagles of heaven,

And our feet as fleet as fawns,

Still, we would not suffice in thanking You, Lord God-of-us…

Read it all.

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One comment on “Nathan Englander: The Passover Song

  1. libraryjim says:

    Check out YouTube for the tune, type “Dayenu” in the search field (minus quotation marks).

    I first hear it when Jews for Jesus put on the Christ in the Passover presentation.