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Shavuot

A new holiday song moves from baskets and branches to a shared dance.

Story

Shavuot is an English song with music, words and production by Walter J. Kin, performed by Riglis Band. Its author-published lyric is dated 2026. The publication identifies new writing, not a translation of a specified older holiday song. The traditional holiday provides the setting; authorship of this particular song remains contemporary.

The lyric builds the scene through green branches, baskets, berries, white clothing and cheesecake. It gathers selected images into a summer celebration rather than attempting a complete account of Shavuot.

That distinction helps a listener understand what the song does well: it gives children a few visible, memorable actions through which to enter the occasion.

Versions

Commands to shake, jump and clap interrupt the narrative with things an audience can do. The answering exclamations make room for a group, even when individual listeners do not yet know every line. Counting in the middle passage gives the celebration another simple shared pattern before the refrain returns.

Listen to how the repeated greeting changes its function. At first it names the holiday, then it becomes a way of addressing everyone the singers meet. The song's picture of community is created through participation and sharing food.

Its summer setting belongs to this lyric's chosen scene, rather than a claim about the weather wherever the holiday is observed. The verified English performance can accompany either article language; the Russian explanation is not a translated recording.

Credits & resources

You may sing, perform, teach, record, and share Shavuot for non-commercial purposes: schools, synagogues, JCCs, choirs, camps, museums, families, and individuals. Keep the credit to RIGLI and JewishSong.org, and please do not charge for the performance or resell the files.

The music, lyrics, and recording were created for RIGLI by Walter J. Kin, Member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and published by Rigli Publishing as part of JewishSong.org. Full terms and a copy-paste credit line are on our License - Free page. For-profit or commercial use is handled separately.