Mi Sheberach לצה״ל

Earlier this summer I was approached by an incredible organization, Grilling For IDF, to compose a new tune to the words of the Mi Sheberach for the צה״ל for them to play at their events. I quickly recorded an acoustic version which they were able to use until I would record full version later on this year. I’m releasing the song now, as is. No fancy music video. Not me in it playing and singing. Just the words of this powerful Tefilah as we see our brothers and sisters go into war. It’s easy to feel far and hopeless in this. But we have Tefilah. We have each other. We can and will do our part.

English translation of the full prayer:

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.