Olam Chesed Yibaneh

I wrote this song for my daughter, born right after 9/11. This world will be built by love: ours and God's. In the best and worst of moments, non-fundamentalist "believers" and "atheists" are reaching for the same hope using different language. Amen to both.
עולם חסד יבנה
Olam Chesed Yibaneh
I will build this world from love.
And you must build this world from love.
And if we build this world from love,
then God will build this world from love.

[@lcplaztec]

With everything going on now, I come back to this every morning to remind myself of what needs to be done.

[@AFFECTIngclips]

bisrat hashem, we will be in Yisrael in peace!

[@DrJunkhead]

I experienced this for the first time attending my first Reform Service. I was deeply moved by hearing this the first time. I may not be Jewish, but I follow an Eclectic path. I won't forget this song.

[@patr1005]

Just listened to this song in my morning Shabbat prayers simply beautiful I am in tears . Thank you

[@carolungar4725]

Just retuned from Rosh Hashanah services where we sang this song. Great to hear sung by the composer and read about its origin. La Shana Tova to all.

[@jotix10]

Inspiring and spiritual. How can anyone not be moved by the beautiful song? Thanks Rabbi Creditor

[@seattlepainter]

This has to be one of the most beautiful songs that I've ever heard. I just read on Forward that you are very unhappy with the pro-Palestinian protesters using this song and you should be. I don't even think that they understand the true meaning of this song and its context. My hope is that this will change in the future. Thanks for writing such a lovely and beautiful song.

[@rebeccarosenbaum2193]

thank you..this song is a help for now, after the pittsburgh massacre at Tree of Life shul.....

[@ruthcohen-rose3895]

Singing this today at our Jewish and Muslim friendship group's Eid celebration. Very grateful to you for this song and its message.

[@MeirBargeron]

Thank you for the gift of this song. While I am saddened that the brokeness of our world keeps asserting itself, I am grateful that your song is there to offer hope and inspire action to repair the world.

[@rebeccalubavin8458]

Fed my soul during another troubling time. Todah Rabah!

[@larrygreenberg8891]

Sang it at Shul last night during Shabbat, motivated by the attacks in Paris. It's message has carried with me and something I won't forget.

[@bethvillarreal4536]

We just prayed this song in our 9/11 Memorial Interfaith Service at the University of the Incarnate Word. It was shared by Rabbi Benjamin Richards and then sung by Dr. Orit Eylon, Voice instructor at the university. Thank you for this prayer and for the charge to take part in this world that was created for us with love. by love.

[@RabbiCreditor]

so honored, Beth. May we all be blessed with a more loving world and do our parts to make that more real every day.

[@mgolden556]

I first heard your song being sung at a Bend the Arc raly for DACA dreamers. Your spirit comes shining through this video!

[@noraisacoff6649]

This has become a regular at our Shabbat services. So beautiful.

[@Letitrock411]

Truly a beautiful melody. Brought me to tears.

[@levyj413]

Sharing this video today, 9/11/19. I’ve sung it many times at my temple. Thank you for bringing this bit of light into the world! ❤️

[@ellieflier]

This is one of my all time favorite songs. Thank you for writing such a beautiful melody and meaningful words.

[@winnperiyasamy3849]

I heard this song for the first time this Sunday at a #JewsAgainstICE rally attended by 1,000 Jews, rabbis, representatives from Make the Road, and allies that shut down an Amazon bookstore in NYC in protest of Amazon and Palantir Tech's contracts with ICE. It moved me to tears. From a non-Jewish ally - thank you.

[@RabbiCreditor]

Deeply honored.

[@winnperiyasamy3849]

@@RabbiCreditor - twitter.com/WPeriyasamy/status/1160672894445375488. I wish I had a full recording for you but JFREJNYC should have a stream! Thank you for this powerful song.

[@mayac3509]

My music teacher sang this in front of the class and I loved it!

[@esaslaw]

I had heard Rabbi Creditor's beautiful song several times since 9/11, but when Rabbi Angela Buchdahl and Cantor Julia Cadrain sang it at Central Synagogue in the midst of the horrible mess made when refugees cleared to enter our country after a long struggle to get here were turned away, I came close to tears. My daughter has convinced me that grace or chesed is our way out of all these messes but this song are our marching orders I think.

[@RabbiCreditor]

amen, amen, amen!

[@esaslaw]

Rabbi Menachem Creditor thank you. Todah Rabah.

[@lucilevialard6547]

Edward D. Saslaw

[@sumc5028]

Thank you Rabbi Menacham for this absolutely beautiful piece of music. It has carried me thru a difficult time in my life. I sang this as a closing prayer at Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in my 2 havurah groups I worship with and the message just moves my soul at the deepest core. I feel grounded every time I listen to you sing it. Just beautiful music.

[@connieseligman5786]

I love the way this song reflects both joy and determination . . .You are a gifted composer, todah rabah!

[@RabbiCreditor]

Todah to you!

[@swithinfry]

Powerful - many getle thanks!

[@dreyfalex]

Such a blessed song has come through you! Thank you.

[@LindaAlpert]

Wonderful melody; it is soothing and inspiring at the same time.

[@reneebenmeleh8004]

Super beautiful Rabbi Creditor!!! Thank you for sharing! :-)

[@sharonbrown-levy4734]

I plan to debut this piece at my congregation at our Rosh Hashanah service this year. Kol HaKavod, Menachem. Many thanks for sending the music so quickly!

[@jameswalker7684]

Wonderful song!!! Praise Ha’Shem

[@NinaManolson]

So soul nourishing. Thank you.

[@JHDanan]

I just learned it this weekend at the Shabbaton in memory of Reb Zalman zt"l. This is such a beautiful song chant, and a gift to the soul. Thank you Rabbi Menachem Creditor.

[@AzamraPDX]

כן יהי רצון .... may it be God's will!

[@TheresaForino]

just so beautiful, I can't stop listening to it 💗✡😊

[@chirokaren1970]

I have this one on repeat on iTunes often... it totally hits my heart. Thank you.

[@rebeccamazur7935]

Thank you.

[@MrIsh007]

We, The Raga Baba's, practiced this song, this evening - it was an exhilerating experience! Touched our hearts. Thank you so much . . . Amen

[@JanetheWriter]

Thank you...and Shabbat shalom.

[@888bjxjs888]

Made me cry, so beautiful. Thank you.

[@annjeanmillikan]

Absolutely gorgeous, absolutely and serenely so!

[@MrTacobellman]

You are a beautiful person! Be blessed brother.

[@annmillikan9276]

fantastic....tender and beautiful words, thoughts expressed AND voice....

[@terryann6343]

Absolutely beautiful... thank you for sharing

[@SaraLevins]

I listen to this when i’m sad, anxious or just down.

[@ProfessorBeautiful]

It was almost a year ago, after the massacre, that two thousand of us, residents of Squirrel Hill and friends from neighboring communities, walked through our streets for four hours . We sang two songs alternately, throughout the afternoon. Ozi v"Zimrat Yah. And this song. The music helped us with our grief. Meanwhile, the First Family of Flim Flam enjoyed a photo op a block away at the synagogue.

[@Eliav-246]

I love it ! Shalom !

[@SharonKunkel]

Beautiful and moving. We will be singing this song at our #StandUpForShabbat services tonight in Sarasota.

[@kendlericious]

we're singing this at school weekly! love it so much

[@RabbiCreditor]

Awesome!

[@timbrogdon4168]

rabbi - thank you for this song

[@JaffaRoad]

The need for this tefilah is unfortunately still so very real.

[@SimoneG]

Thank you so much for sharing this. I was at a music conference over the weekend (in London, run by the UK's Movement for Reform Judaism) and heard/sang this song for the first time, and fell in love with it. As soon as I got home I looked it up as I wanted to find the composer! I hope you don't mind that I posted my own cover/arrangement. I'm in a tefillah band and I'd love to introduce this song to my shul.

[@nicolelevin860]

Thank you for this absolutely beautiful song - we sing it at shul and I play it at home with my children.

[@RabbiCreditor]

Nicole Levin Honored and humbled, Nicole!

[@dadlaponizil3687]

Beautiful, vital, inspiring. I want to add some verses about love manifesting into a livable earth.

[@karenkessler1271]

we sing this tune every shabbat at shul! philadelphia.

[@murrayzedeck7791]

wonderful and meaningful. Amen.

[@awldrf]

I'm listening today on MLK Jr.'s birthday. May we build this world with love, together.

[@jobrown7924]

Congregants of Hinenu, led by Rabbi Arianna Katz, joined by Quakers from Homewood Meeting, sang this beautiful song at Shabbat services at Homewood Friday, as Muslim women from CAIR and pastors from two Protestant churches stood vigil in the rain outside. On Saturda morning, congregants at Beth Am sang it, led by Rabbi Alan Berg, joined by an equal number of Baltimore residents of all faiths, who filled the synagogue to overflowing. On Sunday, when the celebration of peace and light known as the Baltimore Ceasefire movement honored a young woman whose life was taken by murder that morning in an alley full of broken glass in West Baltimore, Beth Am and Hinenu congregants joined African American and non-black celebrants in that bleak alley, led by Erricka Bridgeford, and sang Olam Cheded Yibaneh. Light travels around corners. We WILL build this world from love.

[@Peace88839P]

Sang this song in church this morning. Thank you for spreading this message.

[@Ellie-wv3ps]

Can you please share the guitar chords? This is a beautiful song - putting its message out into the world, which at times feels dark, can only help. Thank you.

[@Bigjukka]

Ellie Shuk Em D C D Em G D C D Em

[@blumberg1982]

Love you and your beautiful wife!

[@ThePenguinbabe]

I sing with Hazzan Michael Stein and the choir Kolot Tikvah!

[@feliciasnyder26]

How do I get a copy of this music??? I would love to use it for a meditation service on Yom Kippur?

[@kikabireagan7665]

❤️❤️🙏🙏

[@RabbiCreditor]

[@asktheanswer424]

Enlightenment, endarkenment, loving kindness itself is the true philosophers stone - dryad hippie Fleming ye wish mystic who healed with lsd in medieval belgium

[@hopesteven4120]

Tikkun Olam.

[@maxryan7803]

Hey what are the chords for this song. My rabbi asked me to play it at a service tomorrow for 9/11 and i dont know what the chords are.

[@RabbiCreditor]

High School Vlogs glad to help: Em, D, C, then reverse. Then throw in a G for part 2. Good luck, and honored you'll be sharing it with your community.

[@jefftiebout1376]

A beautiful song. Could you please send the music? We do Dances of Universal Peace and would like to include it. Thank you. Shanti Prema

[@ginnye2268]

Sung at public Shiva for Sq. hill murder victims

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