THANK YOU REBBI- Benny Friedman & Yitzy Waldner- Composed by Yitzy Waldner, Lyrics by Miriam Israeli- Single 2021

I had a teacher
A Rebbi in my life
Who made me what I am today,
I was too young then to know that I’d owe
A debt I could never repay.
Now, we were no angels
But Rebbi stayed on
He saw something we couldn’t see,
Year after year, at the front of the class
Building the world that would be.

He could’ve been a doctor
accountant, a lawyer
Had wealth and a fancy degree,
He could’ve chosen to go for the gold
But instead my Rebbi chose me.

CHORUS:
How I wish you could see that the message you taught
Remains with us all of our lives.
Rebbi, just know that you’re changing the world
You do it one child at a time.
Countless talmidim who stand up and say
Thank you, dear Rebbi.
How I wish you could see that the lessons we’ve learned
Remains with us all of our lives.
Rebbi, just know that you’re changing the world
You do it one child at a time.
Countless talmidim who stand up and say
Thank you, dear Rebbi
Every day.

I had a teacher
A Rebbi in my life
But it’s only now when I’m grown,
I realize that teacher and Rebbi of mine
Had a family and life of his own.
And I’d like to tell them
You all have a zechus
Because you were there to support,
Like Rabbi Akiva who said of his wife,
All that is mine’s really yours.

May you all have brachos
And share joy and nachas
And blessings for eternity,
You could have chosen to go for the gold
But with you, my Rebbi chose me.

CHORUS:
How I wish you could see that the message you taught
Remains with us all of our lives.
Rebbi, just know that you’re changing the world
You do it one child at a time.
Countless talmidim who stand up and say
Thank you, dear Rebbi.
How I wish you could see that the lessons we’ve learned
Remains with us all of our lives.
Rebbi, just know that you’re changing the world
You do it one child at a time.
Countless talmidim who stand up and say
Thank you, dear Rebbi
Every day.

How I wish you could see that the message you taught
Remains with us all of our lives.
Rebbi, just know that you’re changing the world
You do it one child at a time.
Countless talmidim who stand up and say
Thank you, Rebbi
Every day.