What does it truly mean to be alive?
Just as an individual person is a partnership of a Guf (body) and a Neshama (soul), so too is the collective body of Klal Yisrael. Our physical peoplehood makes up the body, but our absolute life force, the soul that pumps vitality into our existence, is our Yidishkeit, our Torah, and our Mitzvos.
But a soul cannot just go through the motions. To be stuck in Yidishkeit or to live it without passion means we are not fully connected to its essence. A Yidishkeit that is cold or mechanical is missing the heartbeat. We want to have a Yidishkeit that is alive and on fire, a lifestyle bursting with Simcha, passion, and joy. It must be full of Torah because Torah is where the ultimate chiyus, the ultimate life, lives.
For over 3,000 years, the world has looked at the eternal survival of the Jewish people and wondered: What’s the secret? The secret is not a mystery; it is a reality we live every single day. We are alive because our Neshama is vibrantly, passionately connected to our Guf. Every time we learn a word of Torah, every time we daven, and every single time we perform a physical Mitzva with joy, we are bringing that soul into the physical world and making it tangible. That is where our life comes from. That burning connection to Hashem is what fuels the fire, the Simcha, and the ultimate declaration: Am Yisroel Chai Leolam!
TYH Nation Presents
Yiddishkeit (Little Bardichevers)
TYH Boys
Written by: Blumstein Bros, Yehudah Pinsker
Produced by: Yehudah Pinsker
TYH Boys / Choir leader: Meir Green
Shua H
Zevi K
Rudy R
Sruly R
Roni S
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Lyrics
(Album Intro)
We’re alive can’t you see it?
And there’s nothing on earth that can beat it
3000 years what’s the secret?
What’s the secret?
What’s the secret?
(Intro)
We’ve Got Torah
We’ve Got Simcha
We’ve Got Fire
In our yiddishkeit
(Verse 1)
Am Yisrael
I’m I’m alive
Am Am Yisrael
Chai (Ah-Ay)
Am Yisrael
A Ani Chai
Am Am Yisrael
Chai (Ah-Ay)
(Chorus 1)
We’ve Got Fire in our Yiddishkeit
Simcha in our Yiddishkeit
Torah In our Yiddishkeit
In our Yiddishkeit
We’ve Got Fire in our Yiddishkeit
Simcha in our Yiddishkeit
Am Yisrael Chai Leolam
Leolam
We’ve Got Fire in our Yiddishkeit
Simcha in our Yiddishkeit
Torah In our Yiddishkeit
In our Yiddishkeit
We’ve Got Fire in our Yiddishkeit
Simcha in our Yiddishkeit
Am Yisrael Chai Leolam
Leolam
(Verse 2)
Am Yisrael
We’re alive
Am Am Yisrael
Chai (Ah-Ay)
Am Yisrael
We know why
Am Am Yisrael
Chai (Ah-Ay)
(Chorus 2)
We’ve Got Fire in our Yiddishkeit
Simcha in our Yiddishkeit
Torah In our Yiddishkeit
In our Yiddishkeit
We’ve Got Fire in our Yiddishkeit
Simcha in our Yiddishkeit
Am Yisrael Chai Leolam
Leolam
(Bridge)
It’s that fire keeping us alive (ah ay ah ay ah ay)
It’s that fire keeping us alive (Ah ay ah ay)
(Keep the fire alive, keep the fire alive, keep the fire alive)
(Ah ay ah ay)
In our Yiddishkeit
(Chorus 3)
We’ve Got Fire in our Yiddishkeit
Simcha in our Yiddishkeit
Torah In our Yiddishkeit
In our Yiddishkeit
We’ve Got Fire in our Yiddishkeit
Simcha in our Yiddishkeit
Am Yisrael Chai Leolam
Leolam
We’ve Got Fire in our Yiddishkeit
Simcha in our Yiddishkeit
Torah In our Yiddishkeit
In our Yiddishkeit
We’ve Got Fire in our Yiddishkeit
Simcha in our Yiddishkeit
Am Yisrael Chai Leolam
Leolam
We’ve got fire in our Yiddishkeit
We’ve Got fire in our yiddishkeit
We’ve got fire in our yiddishkeit
We’ve got it (Torah) we’ve got it (Fire)
We’ve got it in our yiddishkeit
