Note from the Songwriter:

Have each student make a yad. Yad making kids are available for purchase, with letter beads for Hebrew names. This is great for pre-Bnei Mitzvah students, as they can use it during their service and whenever they lead after. For younger kids, using modeling clay, wiki sticks, cardboard, or other materials, is a great alternative. After they’re made, practice holding the yad as an extension of the finger. Use it in the classroom when you do reading practice or say prayers. And take a field trip to see a Torah up close! Discuss behavior on the bima and at the Torah, and give each student a chance to run their yad over the parchment. You can sing the shehechiyanu at the end if it was their first time up close to a Torah.
Lyrics:
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In the ark,
there’s a book
Pull the curtain
Take a look
It’s a guide
For how to be
The story of
Our family

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So take your yad
In your yad
Let it roll
Across the scroll
Let every letter
Help you be better
and give the Torah a hand
We can give the Torah a hand

Take it out
Look within
At the parchment
Made of skin
At the words
We love so much
We need to read
But we can’t touch

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Every word
Inked with care
By the hands
Of the Sofer
Words that challenge
Words that heal
We can’t touch
But we can feel

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