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Maoz Tzur (words: Mordechai, music: Basya Schechter)

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Hanukkah Program 2016, Congregation Beth Torah, Overland Park, KS.

Rabbi: Javier Cattapan
Music Director: Emily Tummons
Choir Director: Carmen Dieker

Maoz tzur y’shu’ati, l’cha na’eh l’shabei’ach. Tikon beit t’filati, v’sham toda n’zabei’ach. L’eit tachin matbei’ach mitzar hamnabei’ach. Az egmor b’shir mizmor chanukat hamizbei’ah

Y’vanim nikb’tzu alai, azai bimei Hashmanim. Ufartzu chomot migdalai, v’tim’u kol hash’manim. Uminotar kankanim na’asa neis lashoshanim. B’nei vinah y’mei sh’mona kav’u shir ur’nanim.

"My refuge, my rock of salvation, it is good to sing your praises. Let our house of prayer be restored. And there we will offer you our thanks. When you will have slaughtered the barking foe, then we will celebrate with song and psalm the altar’s dedication. The Greeks gathered against me, in the days of the Hasmoneans. They broke down the walls of my towers, and defiled all the oils. But from the last remaining flask a miracle was wrought for the Jews. Therefore the sages of the day ordained these eight for songs of praise."