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Got Fun Avrohom (Traditional Ashkenazi)

from Havdalah - Live From Jerusalem by Cantor Azi Schwartz of Park Avenue Synagogue

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Got fun Avrohom
Traditional Ashkenazi
Got fun Avraham is a Yiddish prayer
recited before Havdalah by women in
many Ashkenazi communities. The
text, attributed to the Hasidic master
Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev,
portrays a woman’s concern for her
family members’ health, safety, and
success. This song was selected for
this album as a tribute from Cantor
Schwartz to his beloved Grandmother
Irene. The track includes an invaluable
recording of Grandmother Irene
herself reciting the prayer Got fun
Avrohom according to the tradition of
her family in pre-Holocaust Hungary.

lyrics

גאָט פֿון אברהם, פֿון יצחק און פֿון יעקב,
באַהיט כל ישראל וגומל טוב.
אז דער ליבער שבת־קודש גייט אוועק, די וואָך זאָל אונדז קומען,
צו מזל, צו ברכה, צו פרנסה און כלכלה,
צו געזונט און צו לעבען, צו עושר וכבוד וחיים ושלום,
ונאמר אמן, אמן ואמן.

Got fun Avrum, fun [fin] Itzthak und fun Yakov,
Bahit kol Yisrael v’goymel toyv.
Az der liber Shabbos koydesh geyt avek, di vokh zol undz kumen,
Tzu mazl, tzu b’rokhco, tzu parnosah un khalkalah,
Tzu gezunt [gezint] un tzu leben, tzu oysher v’khavod v’ha·yim v’shalom.
V’nomar Amen, Amen v’Amen.

God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
Protect Your people Israel and grant them with good.
As the holy Shabbat is ending, may the good week come to us
With luck, with blessing, with sustenance and livelihood,
With health and with life, with wealth and dignity and life and peace,
And let us say Amen, Amen and Amen.

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Oy, bobenyu, zog nokh nit "Got fun Avrom",
wos is do mir dir haynt der ayl?
In mayrivsayt is nokh di sun nit vargangn,
oy, bobenyu, wart nokh a wayl.

Zershter nit dem fridn, dem heylign Shabes
di shtile, di heylige ru.
Men zet nokh nit shaynen in himl keyn shtern,
oy, wart nokh a regele tzu.

Der "Got fun Avrom", er shpant uns tzurik ayn
in shvern togteglikhn yokh.
Tzu trogn dem goles, dem cheder, dem rebn
dem ol un di dayges fun wokh.

Dokh blaybt wi vershtaynert di bobe baym fenster
si is tzu mayn beytn wi toyb.
Oy "Got fun Avrom", un es kayklt arob sikh
a trer oyf der tunkeler shoyb.

Oh, Grandma, do not recite
“Got fun Avraham” yet.
Why, oh why, you should hurry?
The sun has barely set in the west,
Wait, Grandma, wait just a little more.

Do not ruin this holy, peaceful Shabbat,
The quiet, the sacred calmness.
There are not yet stars in the sky,
Oh, wait just a moment more.

The God of Abraham, very soon,
he will harness us on our daily work again,
To bear the exile, the school, the Rabbi,
The burden and the worries of the week ahead.

Yet Grandma by the window remains unmoved,
And my plea is remained unheard.
Oh, “Got fun Avrom” - whisper her lips,
and a dark tear roles on the window-pane.

אוי, באָבעניו, זאָג נאָך ניט "גאָט פון אברהם,"
וואָס איז דאָס מיט דיר היינט דער אייל?
אין מערב-זייט איז נאָך די זון ניט פאַרגאַנגען,
אוי, באָבעניו, וואַרט נאָך אַ ווייל.

צעשטער ניט דעם פרידן, דעם הייליקן שבת,
די שטילע, די הייליקע רו,
מען זעט נאָך ניט שיינען אין הימל קיין שטערן,
וואַרט נאָך אַ רגע'לע צו.

דער גאָט פון אברהם, ער שפאַנט אונדז צוריק איין,
אין שווערן טאָג-טעגלעכן יאָך,
צו טראָגן דעם גלות, דעם חדר, דעם רבין,
דעם עול און די דאגות פון וואָך.

דאָך בלייבט ווי פאַרשטיינערט די באָבע ביים פענצטער,
זי איז צו מיין בעטן ווי טויב,
אוי, "גאָט פון אברהם," און עס קייקלט אַראָפ זיך,
אַ טרער אויף דער טונקעלער שויב.

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from Havdalah - Live From Jerusalem, released September 19, 2019
Traditional Ashkenazi

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Cantor Azi Schwartz of Park Avenue Synagogue New York, New York

Cantor Azi Schwartz is the Senior Cantor of Park Avenue Synagogue in New York, and is a world-renowned vocal performer and recording artist whose music reaches Jewish and interfaith audiences internationally.

Azi has performed at Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden; on PBS and on Richard Gere’s movie 'Norman'; and for Pope Francis.

He has released nine albums of Jewish liturgical music.
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