A Prayer for the Soldiers of the IDF by Nerya Granot

As the Israel Defense Forces continue to make progress in the war against Hamas in Gaza, we share yet another version of the prayer for the protection of the IDF soldiers. In this moving video, the singer is a young boy named Nerya Granot. 

His father, Rabbi Yuval Granot, is the rabbi of The Young Israel synagogue of Ramat Poleg, a suburb of Netanya. 

Here is the English translation:

“He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea. 

May Hashem cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.  

May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Hashem, your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you. Now let us respond: Amen.”

(Kol haKavod to Daniel Yishai, who posted it on YouTube on October 24.) 

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