This week has seen an outbreak of unbridled joy and spontaneous gratitude to God that is unprecedented in recent times, when it seemed that almost everyone in our little nation was following the events leading up to the release of the last living hostages and their reunion with families and loved ones. This surge of pure emotion was encapsulated by the recitation in many places of worship -- including our own Beit Knesset Hanassi -- of Mizmor LeTodah (Psalm 100), a chapter of Tehillim that expresses this gratitude in a format that has stood the test of millennia.
Mizmor LeTodah runs like this:
In translation:
Our member Max Stern has provided his own cheerful, effervescent musical version of Mizmor LeTodah. You can enjoy it on his YouTube channel here.