Wrap Video
With Orin Rotman and the Midwest Region Chorus
T'FILLIN WRAP RAP
My name is ROTMAN
That is my billin'
I have to COME here today
to talk about T'FILLIN
We have this CLASS
to TEACH you how to JEW - it
I'm gonna show you T'FILLIN
and I'll teach you how to DO IT HEY!
CHORUS:
T'FILLIN LOOK SO FUNNY
THEY SEEM SO WEIRD AND ODD
BUT WITH T'FILLIN I COMMIT
TO LOVE MY G-D! HEY!
G-D who CREATED me
Sustains all life
G-D who KEEPS me safe
from famine, war and strife
IN WHOSE IMAGE
we ALL were made
GAVE us his TORAH
and SAID to us ‘BEHAVE!'
But we TEND to forget, you see
PEOPLE are so FICKLE
So we're reminded with T'FILLIN
even though they TICKLE HEY!
CHORUS:
T'FILLIN LOOK SO FUNNY
THEY SEEM SO WEIRD AND ODD
BUT WITH T'FILLIN I COMMIT
TO LOVE MY G-D! HEY!
They're made of black boxes
With LONG black strings
They contain G-D'S commandments
THAT'S they're major thing
WEAR ONE by your heart
NEAR where it lies
the OTHER on your forehead
right between your eyes
FIRST you say some BRUCHAS
To REMEMBER you are Jewish
THANKING G-D for giving us
a WAY to see through it.
CHORUS:
T'FILLIN LOOK SO FUNNY
THEY SEEM SO WEIRD AND ODD
BUT WITH T'FILLIN I COMMIT
TO LOVE MY G-D! HEY!
FIRST one on the upper arm
TIGHTEN as you go
Then turn it ‘round the FOREARM
With SEVEN stripes to SHOW
Now SOME turn the straps
DIFFERENTLY you'll see
I do it OUTSIDE IN
THAT'S what works for me
1-T'FILLIN-2-T'FILLIN-3-T'FILLIN-4-T'FILLIN-5-T'FILLIN-6-T'FILLIN-7-T'FILLIN-HOLD
HOLD it in your hand
JUST like I said
TAKE the other T'FILLIN out
And PLACE IT on your head
Make SURE the box is CENTERED
ON its forehead DECK
and THAT the little knot in back
is CENTERED on your NECK
NEXT check the straps
to SEE that they're in PLACE
ONLY let the BLACK side show
THAT'S the way they FACE HEY!
CHORUS:
T'FILLIN LOOK SO FUNNY
THEY SEEM SO WEIRD AND ODD
BUT WITH T'FILLIN I COMMIT
TO LOVE MY G-D! HEY!
Now BACK to the HAND
A MOST amazing PART
We BIND the name of G-D
on our HAND and in our HEART
MAN is mostly GOOD
But we HAVE the urge to SIN
By TYING UP our hands with G-D
we TRY to hold it IN
FIRST around this FINGER - Yod
Then two FINGERS make a DALET
We FINISH with some SPECIAL turns
G-D's name ‘SHADDAI' is solid HEY!
CHORUS:
T'FILLIN LOOK SO FUNNY
THEY SEEM SO WEIRD AND ODD
BUT WITH T'FILLIN I COMMIT
TO LOVE MY G-D! HEY!
It makes me feel so SPECIAL
I want to SHOUT and clap
I'm PROUD of being Jewish
And DOIN' the T'FILLIN Wrap!
CHORUS:
T'FILLIN LOOK SO FUNNY
THEY SEEM SO WEIRD AND ODD
BUT WITH T'FILLIN I COMMIT
TO LOVE MY G-D! HEY!
© Orin S. Rotman 1992
