Mark Zuckerman - Composer

Gebet [Prayer]

1995 SATB a cappella (CO) Score Get the Music Recording: Goldene Keyt Singers
A prayer for the strength, wisdom, and ability to fight evil and turn the world into a better place.

Avrom Reisen’s Yiddish poem, Gebet (Prayer), has a timeless and transcultural message:

Teach me, teach me how to deal with the world, O Lord! And how I may transform evil into good. If a wild beast lurks in our humanity, let me turn it to a mild humility. I’ve seen a trainer in a circus tame a tiger; seen him defang a snake. Lord, let me be wiser. Bless me with patience, too, and make me iron hard, that I may show mankind at least such wonders, Lord. [Translation by Leonard Wolf]