Mah Tovu - Yosef & Annie

Music written and performed by Rabbi Annie Lewis & Rabbi Yosef Goldman (Ari Kushner, guitar) (Chords below)

מַה טּבוּ אהָלֶיךָ יַעֲקב מִשְׁכְּנתֶיךָ יִשְׂרָאֵל.
וַאֲנִי בְּרב חַסְדְּךָ אָבא בֵיתֶךָ, אֶשְׁתַּחֲוֶה אֶל הֵיכַל קָדְשְׁךָ בְּיִרְאָתֶךָ.

How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, your habitations, O Israel! (Num. 24:5) By Your abundant grace, I enter Your house; ‎I worship before Your holy shrine with reverence. (Psalms 5:8)
-Siddur, Morning Liturgy

This song was written at Camp Ramah in the Poconos on Shabbat Parshat Balak 2017 on the playground with our 2 year-old daughter as we listened from afar to the sounds of the Torah reading containing the first verse of the song: “Mah tovu ohalecha Ya’akov, mishkenotecha Yisrael.”


CHORDS
Suggested Form: ABA C ABA


A
D A D G D G D G A D
MAH TOVU OHALECHA YA’AKOV, OHALECHA YA’AKOV, MAH TOVU

D A D G D G Bm G A D
MAH TOVU OHALECHA YA’AKOV, OHALECHA YA’AKOV, MAH TOVU


B
G A Em7 A
MISHKENOTECHA YISRAEL, MISHKENOTECHA YISRAEL

C
Em F#m G A
VA’ANI B’ROV CHASDECHA AVO VEITECHA

Bm A G F#m7 G Em7 A Em7 A7
ESHTACHAVEH EL HEICHAL KODSHECHA B’YIRATECHA … / / / /