Love Your Neighbor As Yourself: What If Leviticus Rhymed? asks Elana Jagoda, cantorial soloist at Peninsula Temple Beth El in San Mateo, California. Elana is a music educator, performer, and composer who brings soul and innovation to Jewish music.
Elana released her first solo album, Zum Gali Gali, last year. She revamped classic Jewish family songs with a funky-modern flavor. It was a smash hit, and Zum Gali Gali was selected as one of seven CDs to be distributed nationally to families with young children through the PJ Library program.
If you want to sing along - and Abq Jew knows you will want to - here are the lyrics:
Kedoshim Lyrics
Written and performed by Elana Jagoda
In the chapters of Leviticus
These sacred words you shall not miss
Holy actions are the theme
In Parshat Kedoshim
Commandments you shall know indeed:
Leave some harvest for those in need
Idols should be far away
Be sure you keep the Sabbath day
Always welcome in the stranger
Take action if someone's in danger
Take care not to impede the blind
Do not wear cloth of threads combined
It does no good to bear a grudge
Your duty to be a fair judge
Don't mix species of two kinds
Do pay workers in good time
Don't sleep with the bride chosen for another man
Or you must offer up a ram
Please do not falsely swear
Follow the rules when you trim your hair
Don't subject your daughter to prostitution
Don't solve disputes through retribution
Forbidden is a new tree's fruit
Don't go after your neighbor's loot
Don't insult the deaf although they cannot hear
Your mother and father you shall revere
Help another if you are able
No meat with blood at your table
God's sanctuary you shall venerate
With ghosts do not communicate
In ways of magic do not prophesize
Before your elders you must rise
On your skin, no tattoos
And love the body Hashem gave you
Some may say above all else
Love your neighbor as yourself
In the chapters of Leviticus
These sacred words you shall not miss
Holy actions are the theme
In Parshat Kedoshim
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