THE GENERATION PLEDGE AND THE SINGING OF HATIKVAH

Esther Rebori reading The Third Generation Pladge

We are the next generation, born since the darkness. Through our parent's teachings we are linking ourselves to that annihilated Jewish existence whose echoes permeate our consciousness. We pledge to ensure that our heritage will never be forgotten. We pledge ourselves to continue to remember and pass on all that we have learned to our children and all future generations thereafter. We are your children, we are here!

THE SINGING OF HATIKVAH BY THE AUDIENCE

Transliteration
Kol od Baleivav penima
Nefesh Yehudi homiya
Ulefa'atey Mizrach kadima
Ayin letzion tzofiya

Od lo aveda tikvataynu
Hativkva sh'not alpayim
Lih'yot am chofshi beartzaynu
B'eretz tzion virushalayim

Translation
So long as still within the innermost heart a Jewish Spirit sings, so long as the eye looks eastward, gazing toward Zion, our hope is not lost-that hope of two millennia, to be a free people in our land, the land of Zion and Jerusalem.

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