Here with you beside me, I feel so greatly blessed.
This moment means much more than I can say.
A time to be together, a time for us to rest.
Shabbat is here.
The time has come to celebrate the day.
So I hold you close, my hands upon your head.
As I watch you growing, I smile through my tears;
Sometimes I wish you’d stay forever small.
But then I see you blossom,
And I befriend the passing years.
I love you now, I’ll love you then, I love to see it all.
So I lift my voice to offer you this prayer,
for every step along the road, I will be there.
-Adapted from Mah Tovu’s Rabbi Ken Chasen and Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback