Oral Law Tiyul:  Beit Shaarim & Beit Alpha

   By Evie Kerner,    11^th grade,    Dallas

There was a time in 200 CE

The Sanhedrin ran with no place to call home

There only chance was to move all around

And just for the future of the Mishnah too

Then one night they decided that

The Mishnah was to be written down

Oral law was passed ledor vedor

But stood no chance without Yehuda Hannasi

Rabbis said, “ There is no future without teshiva

They promised that they’d argue for future plans

And ever since that day…

I am a Jew in Israel

Usually hanging out with the haza’’l

And when we’re bored we write halecha

Always writing oral law

Write read learn teach the Mishnah

Write read learn teach from all of talmidim

Jews prospered through time from assimilation

And now we’ve got the oral laws

In tradition views we came with written law on Sinai to

But modernists say different in gemura

One says we were there on Sinai receiving all our laws

Ten commandments and oral law too

And the modern cap says everything was developed

Oral law developed and written down too

Soon enough we learned our memories

Peacefully in diaspora we lived as Jews

And ever since olden days…

I am a Jew in Israel

Usually hanging out with the haza’’l

And when we’re bored we write halecha

Always writing oral law

Write read learn teach the Mishnah

Write read learn teach from all of talmidim

Jews prospered through time from assimilation

And now we’ve got the oral laws

70 rabbis, first generation all in yaveh

Making calendars

Legislate and judiciary government

Is now the way for the Jews future

Forever with oral law…

And for always I thank Sanhedrin…

I am a Jew in Israel

Usually hanging out with the haza’’l

And when we’re bored we write halecha

Always writing oral law

Write read learn teach the Mishnah

Write read learn teach from all of talmidim

Jews prospered through time from assimilation

And now we’ve got the oral laws